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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deliberate the effect of the absence of US foreign aid on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda and death of two children, continued use of nOPV2 in Gaza and the utter failure of type 2 poliovirus removal from the oral poliovirus vaccine, growing measles outbreak in the US including the death of a second child, measles infection parties, the use of fat soluble vitamin A and fish liver oil as anti-viral therapies as well as the history and proven safety of the measles vaccine before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, what happens when antiviral therapy is delayed, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions.

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• African region: outbreaks and other emergencies(WHO Bitstream)
• US withdrawal……death of 4 year old children from Ebola (CIDRAP)
• Science and health writer Apoorva Mandavilli (NY Times)
• US foreign aid pullback……death of 4 year old in Uganda (NY Times)
• Another Ebola death reported in Kampala (Monitor)
• African region: outbreaks and other emergencies(WHO Bitstream)
• More than 600,000 doses of nOPV2 in Gaza last week  (GPEI)
• Utter failure of the global withdrawal of the Sabin oral poliovirus type 2 vaccine 2016 (Science)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• Second child dies in the growing measles outbreak (Washington Post)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Lea county resident tests positive for measles after death (New Mexico Health)
• Robert F Kennedy Jr article series (The Guardian)
• Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department (The Guardian)
• RFK Jr. Says Ending Measles Outbreak Is Priority (Wall Street Journal)
• RFK Jr. 

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