# Florian Krammer
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#31 – Canine Distemper: The Dog Virus That Threatens Whole Species
Canine distemper virus is a paramyxovirus and a close relative of measles virus. Florian Krammer explains why the disease is so dangerous for unvaccinated dogs: in puppies between three and six months the case fatality rate is around 80 percent, and roughly 50 percent in adult dogs with no immunity…
#32 – Spanish Flu: Why It Also Killed the Young and Healthy
The 1918 Spanish flu was the deadliest influenza pandemic on record: between 20 and 100 million people died, from a world population of just 1.8 billion at the time. Florian Krammer explains why this H1N1 virus, with a case fatality rate of two to three percent, was so dangerous, where the misleadi…
#33 – HMPV: The Common Respiratory Virus Nobody Knows
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is one of the most common respiratory viruses there is, yet few people have heard of it. Florian Krammer explains why this relative of RSV is the second most common cause of respiratory illness in children under five and is behind 8 to 15 percent of pneumonia cases in t…
#34 – Junin Virus: A 30 Percent Fatality Rate, but There's a Vaccine
Junin virus causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever, a disease with a case fatality rate of 20 to 30 percent. Florian Krammer explains why these New World arenaviruses are named after sand (they package host cell ribosomes that look like grains of sand under the electron microscope) and what makes their…
#35 – Rustrela Virus: The Mystery of the Staggering Cats
Since the 1970s, cats in Sweden, and later in and around Vienna, have been falling ill with a mysterious brain inflammation known as staggering disease. Affected cats develop fever, behavioral changes, a staggering gait and often paralysis of the hind legs, and most have to be euthanized. For decad…
#36 – LCMV: Why Mice in Your Home Can Be a Risk
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is an arenavirus closely related to Lassa virus, but unlike Junin virus it isn’t limited to South America: it’s found worldwide in house mice. Florian Krammer explains how people get infected, mostly by inhaling dust from dried mouse urine, droppings or sal…
#37 – Winter Is Coming: Update on Flu, COVID and RSV
With the respiratory virus season starting, Florian Krammer gives an overview of what’s circulating and how to protect yourself. He explains why respiratory viruses spread more easily in the cold and how influenza plays ping pong between the northern and southern hemispheres. The focus is on the th…
#38 – Shamonda Virus: What’s Behind the First Human Death in Europe
Shamonda virus is a bunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup, closely related to Schmallenberg, Akabane and Oropouche virus. It was first identified in 1965 in Ibadan, Nigeria, and is known to infect cattle, sheep and goats, transmitted by biting midges. In summer 2026, it caused outbreaks in cattle in Sw…
#39 – Baculovirus: The Virus That Liquefies Its Victims
For Halloween, this episode is about one of the scariest viruses around, at least if you’re an insect: the baculovirus. Florian Krammer explains how these large DNA viruses infect the caterpillars of moths and butterflies, change their behavior so they climb to the top of the plant, and then liquef…
#40 – Hantaan Virus: From the Korean War to the Rats in Your City
Recorded in Seoul, this episode is about Hantaan virus, the prototype hantavirus that gave the whole group its name. Florian Krammer explains how the disease first appeared during the Korean War in more than 3,000 soldiers, how virologist Ho-Wang Lee traced it to the striped field mouse in 1976 and…
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