It’s time for the long-awaited part three of our virology series, which we’re producing in partnership with the American Society for Virology! In this two-parter, we cover mpox, or the virus formerly known as monkeypox. We brought out former Bluejay Dr. Chris Beyrer, the current Director of Duke University’s Global Health Institue. Before his transition to Duke, Dr. Beyrer spent years developing public health and human rights education at Johns Hopkins as well as setting up the HIV/AIDS research apparatus at our university. And before that, he spent years all over the world studying HIV and possible vaccines for that tricky virus. In this episode, Dr. Beyrer shares his thoughts on mpox and its connection to other viruses like the virus behind COVID-19 and HIV. We hope you enjoy this episode!

If you have questions for Dr. Chris Beyrer, you can reach him at his email: chris.beyrer@duke.edu.

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Links and Resources

CDC mpox page: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/index.html

CDC page for the mpox Jynneous vaccine: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/interim-considerations/jynneos-vaccine.html

CDC mpox fact sheet: https://npin.cdc.gov/publication/what-mpox

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Credits

Music: ‘Lucky Massive Dangerous’ by Speck

Editing: Michael Dryzer

Intro & Outro: Michael Dryzer

Interviewers: Michael Dryzer and Camille Wouters

Interviewees: Dr. Chris Beyrer

With help from other members of the Sci’more Podcast team!