Virology Lectures 2024 #1: What is a virus? 

I have been listening to your course since 2016. I was a mere medical student. Now graduated and working, and I still love your course. Thank you professor for putting so much out there. Because you chose to upload your course online I was able to listen from Turkey. ❤

Thank you Professor, I attended your course in 2021 and have learned so much about virology as a result, the subject gets more interesting the more I understand about viruses.

Hi from Brazil. I discovered your course today. I am doing my PhD in health sciences and foucusing in viroly, specifically I am doing my research in mosquitoes virome. Your course will definitely be helpful!

Thanks Dr. for your classes. Even an average Joe can listen & learn something. And I want to thank you for your chats with Dr. Offit. as well. RU-vid is wonderful.

Thank you for sharing this freely and believing in free education. I really appreciate it!loved this first lecture and looking forward to more

Glad you’re doing this again in 2024! Let’s go!!!

Virus and One pieces truly my personal and professional lives are coming together

I followed this in 2021 and I think I'll do it again!

Very exciting, thank you for sharing!

This is tremendous.

Love your course, it was my first introduction to viruses back in 2020. I was wondering if you could write a paper or do a TWIV tracing the pandemic from start to finish using your 2020 lectures?

Welcome Back 2024! Thank you very much. Enjoy Your Day! Be Safe & Stay Encouraged!

I listened to your first Virology lecture a couple of years ago and understood pretty much zero. I'll listen again to this to see if anything has changed haha! Thanks for making this publically available.

Sir certainly I'll WOW you if you make your channels an one-stop site for all virus related subjects, a would-be great achievement benefiting humanity. Thank you for your tireless efforts to educate the poblic👍

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Looking forward to all of the 2024 lectures.

thank you very much and may god bless you

Watching your videos since 2018.

I am already a monthly subscriber.

Just a high school student who interested so much in virology and wanna learn much . Glad to find these lectures

Your book on virology is marvellous and extremely didactic

This is always fun to watch the latest version of the course! I vaguely recall a stat that something like 30% of cancers are caused at least in part by viruses. Not sure if that is also 30% of cancer deaths, but surely it's a significant number if not 30%. Edit: I went into an AI 'search engine' and it gave some interesting figures but says 10-16% of cancers are attributable to infections. I understand it not having a red arrow on the 'Causes of death' slide as seen in the above lecture because it is a small portion of the total, though.

This first lecture should be compulsory listening for every journalist writing about current health issues.

Hi! Love the first section. Is there anywhere I can get the slides from?

since some viruses stablish mutualistic or symbiotic relationships with their hosts, should we change the classical definition of viruses "obligate parasites"? I know that's a philosophical qüestion same as if they are alive, but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your great lectures

Thank you ❤

may I have a link of principle of virology, fifth edition... thank you

The intro music is getting better every year.

What’s your job? “I’m a whale breath catcher”

Thank you for everything and I can get a bdf lectuers or ppw

the number of viruses on a pin relates to the medieval discussion of how many angels can stand on a pin.

in the middle age people asked about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin....I think it's something deeply rooted in our culture 😂

43:30 The fomite theory of spread was shown to be insignificant It was the aerosol, dammit.

Thanks!

❤ vincent

I hope I don’t have HSV2… that would be a bit scary

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Hoax.

Thank you, Vincent!

Super interesting, wish I would have had such fantastic instruction at University of California, may have stayed a biology major

I like your course. Never stop learning.

Yesterday I finished 2023 virology course. Now I am in 2024 course. I m glad. Hello from Kazakhstan!

Thank you Professor! I took the first 12 of your lectures in 2022, before my brain fried😊 I'm trying again, you're a brilliant human for giving your time freely, even for non-science people like me.❤

Oh how I wish this lecture was in finnish 🇫🇮.. ..but loving this still, even though its a little hard as english is not my native

Thank you for the 2024 course. Love science and took the 2023 course last year and after going through this first class, I have great recall of my first class in 2023. By the way I am wowed by phages. They are amazing.Lis

Oh no! I was visiting downtown NYC in May for a week. Had I known that I could visit « The Incubator » I would have!😢

Does he talk about virus isolation here?

Thank you, Professor!

The examples at minute 23:00 are the only known beneficial relations between host & virus? Do you have any examples for humans?

Thanks Vincent

Are you talking about Somatids ?

31:00 This is obviously Cornwall.

how many genomes does one hiv positive person carry?

Great class!

Coming back because I love virology. This professor is lucid in his presentation. Good job professor!

I watched some of the 2023 lessons and I loved them, and I'll definitely be following the 2024 lessons.

Thank you for sharing this course! And thank you for TWIV--these help to educate us all!

Can we do lectures like this and talk every time about different viruses

Super engaging.

Thank you for such an amazing course! Is there a link to immunology course you were talking about? thank you)

@MicrobeTV Hi Vincent. I really enjoy these lectures - I watch them every year & each time I pick up something I hadn't noticed before.......for example, the image showing large blooms of algae (approx 30 minutes in) is off the coast of Cornwall, UK The spread is roughly from Falmouth up to Plymouth and stretching across towards the Channel Islands & Brittany/Normandy in northern France. I noticed you said this was somewhere in Europe but you weren't sure exactly where - in next year's lectures you can confidently tell your growing audience exactly where this algal bloom was. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Please keep up your excellent work

You not only love your work but you also show care and comfort to all your patients, I want to thank you for the extra time you took to ensure my infection is completely gone. Your medication worked successfully, Thank you, @DrAzziza .........