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Re: Garlic and Herb Sausage

Michael_Day — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:12:02 -0000

Made a version of this sausage tonight. Used this recipe as a guide, and used 4lbs cubed pork butt. The only changes to the spice mixture were the addition of 2 TBS dried marjoram in place of the oregano and lovage, and the use of a (really) large pinch of Korean red pepper flakes in place of the espelette pepper. I used Pinot Grigio as the white wine. It was an absolute hit grilled over charcoal. Don't skimp on the garlic; I'll add 7-8 large cloves next time.

Re: Viruses and journalism

Michael_Day — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:21:50 -0000

It is amazing to me that even beyond the more subtle attempts by news media to find a certain story or specific sound byte, the major news outlets air so much LOUD, SHRILL opinion pieces and even entire shows. Anyone can turn on a major 24 hour news channel, and if they wait long enough, they will find the 10 second (or half hour) spot that will support any notion they may have...and let's not get started on blogs and the internet in general (excluding Virology Blog, of course)

Re: Pandemic H1N1 influenza virus outcompetes seasonal strains in ferrets

Michael_Day — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:21:58 -0000

perfectly clear now...Thanks!

Re: Pandemic H1N1 influenza virus outcompetes seasonal strains in ferrets

Michael_Day — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:30:40 -0000

You wrote, "...we would predict that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain is not likely to reassort with the seasonal strains; and that it is likely to out-compete those strains and eventually disappear." So, are you saying that since the pandemic H1N1 does not appear to be able to reassort with seasonal flu that it is unlikely to become seasonal and may therefore disappear? And, why would pandemic H1N1 need to be part of a reassorting "event" to become a seasonal problem?

Re: Rapid sharing of influenza research

Michael_Day — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:56:21 -0000

I was just having a conversation with a colleague about this idea of rapid publication/access. The only problem that she could see was that in certain cut-throat research areas (she just happens to work with influenza), researchers may be very unwilling to share any results that are the least bit "preliminary". Sort of like saying a bit too much about your research ideas at a meeting...

Re: Tamiflu in river water

Michael_Day — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:56:13 -0000

When Tamilflu runs low this fall and winter, I now know where to find a free, relatively constant supply of oseltamivir carboxylate...

Re: Innate immune defenses

Michael_Day — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:54:48 -0000

When I first started studying reovirus as a postdoc, I was absolutely blown away when I began to look into the transcription "strategy" of reovirus: a transcriptase complex poised at each of the icosahedral fivefold axes of the viral core, which protects the dsRNA genome, never exposing the dsRNA to the cytoplasm. The mRNA transcripts are extruded from the viral core and emerge complete with a 5' cap! What a beautiful, little (and sneaky) machine.

Re: Swine influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) update

Michael_Day — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:28:38 -0000

Regarding Dr. Schuchat's statement, could it be that if you trace the lineage of certain viral genome segments that their origin could be avian, for example? i.e., perhaps the A/swine/Indiana/P12439/00 isolate was/is a reassortant originally containing some segments of avian origin? Just a thought, I have not personally looked closely at these sequences...

Re: Swine flu at Fort Dix

Michael_Day — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:56:25 -0000

Interesting (given the polio-heavy postings last week) that the Wikipedia entry linked to above describing Guillain-Barre syndrome includes a reference to a paper that questions whether FDR's paralysis was actually caused by Guillain-Barre and not paralytic poliomyelitis. (I had not heard this suggested before).

Re: Chronology of an acute infection

Michael_Day — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:02:16 -0000

hmmmm, comment above from yesterday not showing up...

Re: Bacteriophages in viral vaccines

Michael_Day — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:57:12 -0000

Phage contamination in the cell culture media used during virus propagation? Specifically the serum used in the media...

Re: Chronology of an acute infection

Michael_Day — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:55:26 -0000

This could also be a lesson on how to design an excellent graphic that tells your reader everything they need (or want) to know, despite its dated appearance. After the virus level peaks and declines in the blood and antibody levels begin to increase ~day 10, would the 99% of people who recover at that point continue to shed virus in the feces for some time? Or is the 30+ days of viral shedding in feces only in people who develop neural symptoms?