TWiV 1202: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello rue about the unknowns of Sudan disease and new cases of paralytic polio, discuss the growing measles outbreak, exposure of newborns to measles, the FACTS about vaccination, high pathogenic influenza in dairy cows and cats, RFK’s statement “just let the virus rip through the hens” 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, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions and the relationship between EBV and long COVID.

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Links for this episode

• New cases of poliomyelitis  (GPEI)
• Polio in Africa (CIDRAP)
• Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (PROMED)
• ProMED Subscriptions (PROMED)
• Measles infected baby and exposes 12 (NY Post)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Revising US MMR vaccine recommendations amid changing domestic risks (JAMA Network)
• Long-term dynamics of measles virus–specific neutralizing antibodies in children vaccinated before 12 months of age (CID)
• Newborns exposed to measles in Texas hospital (NBC News)
• Newborns exposed in West Texas measles outbreak (CIDRAP)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
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