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In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by Erica Schwartz' confirmation as CDC director, the GAO proposed pandemic preparedness plans, the national cyclospora outbreak and resulting two deaths, new screwworm and the scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, and clear results from some of President Trump's policies dismantling public health activites including water safety, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the measles outbreak, recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, FDA approval of Moderna's mRNA vaccine for seasonal flu, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, how SARS-CoV-2 infections may reactivate latent viral infections, particularly Aniello virus, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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• Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director (CIDRAP)
• PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS: Experts Identified Actions to Improve Surveillance for Emerging Disease Threats (Government Accountability Office)
• Association Between First MMR Vaccination Before Age 2 Years and Childhood Autism in a U.S. EHR Cohort of 2.5 Million Children (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• F.D.A. Approves Moderna's mRNA Flu Vaccine (NY Times)
• Efficacy and Safety of an mRNA Seasonal Influenza Vaccine in Adults (NEJM)
• Two Deaths Linked to Cyclosporiasis in Michigan (NY Times)
• CDC expands largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states (Washington Post)
• Surveillance of 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)
• Missouri Communicable Disease Report (2026) (Missouri Health)

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