Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses how vaccination and vaccine hesitancy affects public health and disease spread in terms of mpox, the first human death from H5N1 in US, why one should not feed their pets raw pet food and the metapneumonia outbreak in China before reviewing the recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, how nirmatrelvir-ritonavir/Paxlovid reduces adverse outcomes of COVID in patients with kidney disease, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, SARS-CoV-2 infection affects skin conditions including shingles and if long antiviral treatment affects long COVID.

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• Mpox vaccination hesitancy, previous immunisation coverage, and vaccination readiness in the African region (eClincial Medicine)
• Global prevalence and correlates of mpox vaccine acceptance and uptake (Communications Medicine)
• First case of new mpox variant in France (Reuters)
• First “Bird flu” death in US (NY Times)
• Emerging threat of H5N1 to human health (NEJM)
• Don’t feed your pets raw food (County of Los Angeles Public Health)
• Oregon, nationwide raw pet food recall (CIRAP)
• Raw cat food avian flu, is this like raw milk? (CIDRAP)
• Human metapneumovirus surging in China (The Guardian)
• Viral video of viral chaos: human metapneumovirus in Chinese hospital (The Economic Times)
• Human metapneumovirus in China (NY Times)
• Acute respiratory infections including human metapneumovirus in northern hemisphere (WHO)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift no