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This may be informative but sadly it is way beyond my DNA understanding!

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Cold and flu season is well and truly upon us, and whilst most of us are busy bemoaning the pesky viruses behind our sniffles and chesty coughs – one of our listeners has other ideas. Elizabeth wants to know whether we’re too hard on these oft-maligned microbes? We’ve all heard that some bacteria can be good for us, but what about viruses? Could they have a softer side too?
Hannah and Dara explore the virome, from prehistoric placental proteins to ultra-precise disease fighting phages to find out if Viruses truly are the villains of the microscopic world or whether they just need a better PR team.

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Jonathan Ball - Professor of Molecular Virology at the University of Liverpool
Martha Clokie - Professor of Microbiology at the University of Leicester
Marylin Roosinck - Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at Penn State University US,

For the 1921 census there are two occupation codes whose official description includes "canvasser":

774 canvassers (not dock, insurance or railway)
795 insurance canvassers

I searched the 1921 census for occupation code 774. The word canvasser doesn’t appear in many of the descriptions on the census return. Words that do appear frequently are 'agent', 'traveller', 'collector', and 'hire purchase'.

ALAN
many thanks for pushing this topic much further with these further / alternative job titles.

What might this occupation have involved please: Lady Canvasser [at] Furniture Stores

Irene Monica Isobel GAUNTLETT Lady Canvasser [at] Furniture Stores
Birth MAR 1914 • BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, Northumberland, England
Death APRIL 2005 • SOUTH & WEST DORSET, Dorset, England
 

SHELLY,
"So someone else was aware of this twin before you saw the census?  Did this person know that the twin was deceased? "
NO, NOBODY ELSE seems to have any awareness or interest!

I do of course acknowledge the RC rules about not naming living people, BUT if his twin brother and his sister have never even heard mention of a pair of twins in the family, a common sense inference would be that one of the recorded twins was, in fact, deceased.   

Thank you for the long list of people who are permitted, in the US, to apply for a Birth Certificate, but only AFTER you can prove that he is deceased.  To me, this looks like getting into a Kafkaesque repeating and inescapable loop.  Please rescue me from this nightmare!

Harry Blumberg TWIN
Birth ABT 14 Jun 1948 • New York, Kings, New York, USA Street Name Amboy. Dwelling Number 234 NEW YORK, USA
Death AFT 1950 CENSUS • NEW YORK STATE

Mother's Maiden Name was Mildred LABINER 1923-1998
B:26 Oct 1923 Brooklyn, New York USA
D:23 Apr 1998 probably San Diego, California, USA

The death of one twin has not been talked about in the family. Neither living twin brother nor younger sister have any knowledge, and both parents are now deceased.

The twins appear together on the 1950 US Census. 
I should value a lookup for his death record and certificate.

In American Jewish families, i understand that there is a tradition of 'a naming ceremony' that can take place a considerable time after the birth.  Perhaps the twins missed out on this ceremony?  Is there a central Jewish register that I might access please?
Many thanks.