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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss confirmation of Robert F Kennedy as HHS sectary, mpox, Ebola, how the American people support vaccine development and administration, the measles outbreak in the US-Texas, Georgia and influenza: the number of human infections, high avian flu in mammals, house cats and dairy cows 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 long COVID varies between children and adults and if viral infection reduces telomere length in sperm.

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• Confirmation of RFK, Jr as HHS sect (NY Times)
• Did you know mpox in NY?….(Reuters)
• Mpox in sex workers in the Congo and in NY (CIDRAP)
• 9 confirmed, 265 suspected Ebola cases in Uganda (AP news)
• WHAT!? Support vaccines: availability and development. WHAT? (Businesswire)
• Measles rising in the unvaccinated. You mean the vaccines does something positive?  (ABC News)
• Measles in Texas….go big or go home (Texas Health and Human Services)
• Vaccination Conscientious exemptions in Texas (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2, 6, 14 measles hospitalizations in Texas (CNN)
• Decreases in childhood vaccinations SchoolVaxView(CDC)
• 2 when 24 cases of measles in two weeks (Texas Health and Human Services)
• Measles in small town Texas (NY Times)
• Measles in the US Texas, Georgia, Rhode Island, New York, New Mexico:
• Elimination of measles (JID)
• Influenza taxonomy (NCBI)

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