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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss changes in access to public health information, the Marburg and Ebola outbreaks in Africa, the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the US ever, the politicization of polio vaccine campaigns in Pakistan, effect of high pathogenic influenza in animals and on the economy before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, trials and devices to relieve some neurological complications of long COVID and the ramifications of long COVID in children, healthcare workers and adults. 

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• No morbidity and mortality in the US this week? (NPR)
• More support for Marburg outbreak in Tanzania (Reliefweb)
• Tanzania confirming second Marburg case (CIDRAP)
• Norovirus mRNA vaccine …..hmmmm? (moderna)
• What is noronvirus? (modernatx)
• Largest tuberculosis outbreak ever in the US (Reuters)
• Ebola outbreak in DRC during US:WHO strain (STAT News)
• Uganda Ebola outbreak…..1 dead (Reuters)
• Polio outside endemic zone due to militants? (Washington Post)
• Mpox vaccination initiation in central Africa (CIDRAP)
• Preparing rapid response to emerging infectious disease in Africa (PANTHER Health)
• Mpox therapeutic study MOSA enrollment begins (Africa CDC)
• Halting of US foreign aid for health programs…..not in the US best interests? (NY Times)
• No PEPFAR (NY Times)
• PEPFAR (US Department of State)
• PEPFAR…..still 

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