Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss changes in access to public health information and aid mechanisms such as the return of MMWR, the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the US ever, lack of USAID in fighting Marburg and Ebola outbreaks in Africa, discussing if avian influenza virus is airborne, how eggs are effected and the emergence of second spillover into dairy cattle, how the difference between nOPV2 and Sabin OPV2 is a minor reduction in the association of vaccine associated paralytic poliomyelitis before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, how children may be affected by long COVID and if SARS-CoV-2 and other inflammatory syndromes increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

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• The return of MMWR (CDC)
• Largest tuberculosis outbreak ever in the US (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
• Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania (Doctors without borders)
• No USAID, Ebola outbreak in Uganda spreads (CBS News)
• WHO accelerates efforts to Ebola response in Uganda (WHO: Uganda)
• Global partners enable access to vaccine and treatment for Ebola outbreak in Uganda (WHO)
• Ventilation and respiratory viruses (CDC National Institute for Occupational safety and health)
• Is bird flu flying through the air…..is the virus literally airborne? (NY Times)
• Is bird flu like measles (American Journal of Epidemiology)
• Indoor safety guideline (Herokuapp)
• Dairy herds in Nevada have influenza! (CIDRAP)
• Do your eggs have H5N1? (NY Times)
• New genotye D1.1 of avian flu in dairy cattle(USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service