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In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the numerous attempts by states to roll back vaccine laws, the recent surge of Dengue virus cases in Sri Lanka, the national cyclospora outbreak, new screwworm and Legionnaires cases, launching of the CHaT-Ox Ebola vaccine trail, scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and if cross-reactive Ebola antibodies are effective, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the measles outbreak including the new Pennsylvania dashboard, recent statistics RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, how long COVID and ME/CFS differ and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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• Dozens of States Tried to Roll Back Vaccine Laws. Here's How They Fared. (NY Times)
• Dengue cases in Sri Lanka surge past 80,000 (Newswire)
• After withdrawing false-positive test, FDA says Taylor Farms lettuce still a focus of Cyclospora investigation (CIDRAP)
• A difficult-to-trace parasite, messaging missteps contribute to summer of overwhelming Cyclospora outbreaks (CIDRAP)
• Surveillanceof Cyclosporiasis (CDC: Cyclosporiasis)
• Infectious DiseaseOutbreaks (Michigan: Health & Human Services)
• Cyclosporiasis Cases in North Carolina (North Carolina: Division of Public Health)
• Cyclospora Infection (Cyclosporiasis) (NYC Health)
• Legionnaires' Disease (NYC Health)
• MAP UPDATE: 50 buildings in Manhattan outbreak zone test positive for live bacteria (NBC: News)
• Dashboard SCREWWORM.Gov (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
• CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for New World Screwworm Response (CDC Newroom)
• Ebola dashboard (ebola.fyi)
• EBOLA:The Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2026 (WHO)

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