Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello reminiscence about Dickson before discussing discharging Ebola patients, another announcement of emergency measures to control polio spread and the third nOPV2 vaccination campaign in Gaza in less than 6 months, the measles outbreak in the US, vaccination campaign for chickens against high pathogenic avian flu 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, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions.

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• In memory of Dickson (NY Times)
• All Ebola patients discharged in Uganda (DG Alerts)
• Uganda discharges Ebola patients (WHO Uganda)
• Emergency measures to stop polio…..isn’t this the same plan as last year? (GPEI))
• A third nOPV2 campaign…..but I thought OPV stops transmission (Reuters)
• Worst outbreak of measles in 30 years for Texas….go big or go home! (AP News)
• Measles 58 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• High pathogenic avain influenza virus infection of indoor domestic cats (CDC MMWR)
• Avian influenza in dairy cattle in Arizona (AZEIN)
• Third avian flu spillover! (CIDRAP)
• No vaccine hesitancy in chickens…..vaccinate all! (Science)
• Zoetis to supply conditionally licensed avian influenza H5N1 vaccine for chickens (Zoetis)
• High path avian influenza in mammals (USDA: Animal and plant health inspection service)
• How to vaccinate your chicken (WikiHow)
• Vaccine failure due to poor administration.(the poultry site)
• Human