Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Professor Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, we know all about the flu and COVID and all kinds of things.
And then suddenly, Hantavirus was in the news.
So what is it?
Well, it's another virus.
It's an RNA virus.
Now, there's different types of viruses, as I mentioned before.
This one is built from RNA, not DNA.
Now, many viruses are built from RNA.
Flu being a famous one and COVID itself.
HIV, they're on the RNA virus family.
Other viruses are DNA-based, you know.
So, for example, smallpox, that's a DNA virus.
Pox viruses are inclined to be DNA.
But these ones, the Hantavirus family, are part of the RNA virus family.
And a guy called David Baltimore was the scientist, oh, back in the 70s now, who spotted that there were RNA viruses and DNA viruses.
He also spotted that the RNA...
That's the genetic information to make the virus.
The virus goes into your cell.
The RNA gets turned into DNA, an enzyme called reverse transcriptase.
And that DNA then integrates into the genome in the case of some of these RNA viruses.
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