TWiV 1214: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bewail the attack on science within the US and withdrawal from the global health communities, association between the shingles vaccine and reduced dementia occurrence, ending of Uganda’s ebola outbreak, undermining effective responses to human bird flu infections, growing measles outbreak in the US and dire predictions of the return of vaccine preventable diseases including polio if vaccination rates continue to decline, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how HHS is undermining the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Links for this episode

• Lab animal RIFFing (NY Times)
• Herpes zoster vaccination and dementia occurrence(JAMA)
• The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia (Nature Medicine)
• Uganda declares end to latest ebola outbreak (Reuters)
• Enhancing the response to avian influenza in the US and globally (LANCET: Regional Health-Americas)
• H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (CDC: Avian Influenza Bird flu)
• Measles Update — United States, January 1–April 17, 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Measles in Europe……..but greater in the US (CIDRAP)
• Measles – Annual Epidemiological Report for 2024 (ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
• Measles (ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
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