Professor Luke O'Neill
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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And Baltimore won the Nobel Prize because nobody ever thought you'd go from RNA back to DNA.
That's called reverse transcription.
Usually you go from DNA to RNA.
Like when the genes in your cells are all made of DNA and you make RNA and the RNA makes protein.
In this case, some of these viruses, they go from RNA back to DNA.
And hence the RNA virus family became very, very interesting.
It was interesting anyway, because of things like flu, which afflicted us for a long time.
And then, of course, because of COVID-19 more recently,
and HIV.
They're all very famous viruses.
So, hanta is a member of the RNA virus family.
That's the first thing.
Secondly, where does it live?
It lives in rodents.
So, like other viruses, like SARS-CoV-2, which began in bats, you very often see these viruses in other species.
They're called zoonotic infections because they live in animals.
Flu loves chickens.
Flu also loves pigs.
It does infect humans as well.
But very often we see viruses living in animals and then diseases happen when they jump from the animal into the human and the human doesn't like them, overreacts to them and you get disease.
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