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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin continues his discussion of whether the mysterious respiratory illness in the Congo is malaria, and in conjunction with your host Vincent Racaniello discusses how routine childhood immunizations especially that against poliovirus are threatened by Robert F Kennedy Jr and Aaron Siri, the origin of the SAR-CoV-2 virus and retraction of Didier Raoult’s research, then returns to discussing the first case of severe disease following H5N1 infection in humans and the state of California’s “bird flu emergency”, the benefit of the measles vaccine, before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how vaccination reduced hospitalization of children between 5-17 years, the ACIP recommendation for the immunocompromised, where to find PEMGARDA, information for Columbia Unversity Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, long COVID in cancer patients and the physical malaises of long COVID.

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• Mystery disease in DRC kills mostly children (ALJAZEERA)
• Malaria—mysterious disease in DRC? (ALJAZEERA)
• Mysterious disease in DRC is severe malaria (ALJAZEERA)
• Confirmed first severe human H5N1 case (CIDRAP)
• California declares bird flu emergency (Reuters)
• RFK’s lawyer asks FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine (NY Times)
• NO WAY! Vaccination promotes survival and health? (LANCET)
• 10.6 million cases of measles this year alone! (WHO)
• 20% rise in measles…..(NY Times)
• No Sars-CoV-2 relatives in Shi Zhengli’s freezers (Nature)
• Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga (Nature)
• Influenza weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illn