Immune 71: Can parasitic worms prevent pandemics?

<p>Immune explains how, in a mouse model of roundworm infection with <em>Nippostrongylus brasiliensis</em>, exposure to lung-migrating helminths protects mice against SARS-CoV-2 infection.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href="https://twitter.com/cindyleifer">Cynthia Leifer</a>, <a href= "https://twitter.com/stephanielangel?lang=en">Stephanie Langel</a>, and <a title="" href= "http://twitter.com/bioprofbarker">Brianne Barker</a></p> <p>Subscribe (free): <a title="" href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/immune/id1305309644" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href= "https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL2ltbXVuZS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google Podcasts</a>. <a href="http://immune.libsyn.com/rss" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RSS</a>, <a href= "http://eepurl.com/Gcw59" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">email</a><br /> Become a <a href="https://www.microbe.tv/contribute" target= "_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">patron</a> of Immune!</p> <h3 id="links-for-this-episode" class="wp-block-heading">Links for this episode</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://discord.gg/xA4JX7AeeU">MicrobeTV Discord Server</a></li> <li><a title="" href= "https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adf8161">Helminth protects against</a> murine SARS-CoV-2 infection (Sci Immunol)</li> <li>Pandemic <a title="" href= "https://www.science.org/content/article/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why">spared Africa</a> (ScienceInsider)</li> <li><a title="" href= "https://www.microbe.tv/immune/immune-71-letters/(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)"> Letters read</a> on Immune 71</li> <li>Time stamps by <a title="" href= "https://ramseylab.vercel.app/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Jolene</a>. Thanks!</li> </ul> <p>Music by Steve Neal.<br /> Immune logo image by <a href= "https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/File:Blausen_0077_Basophil.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blausen Medical</a><br /> <br /> Send your immunology que