In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello comment on incidences of locally transmitted malaria in the US, mpox diagnostics, the latest developments surrounding hantavirus infections, and the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including vaccine candidates before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the measles outbreak, recent statistics RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, the measles outbreak in Texas in 2025, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, casual association of auto-antibodies and COVID complications and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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CDC Operational Guidance for Investigating Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted Malaria — United States, 2026 (CDC: MMWR)
Performance of five mpox antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests tested on lesion swabs from patients with suspected mpox from the Kinshasa province of DR Congo: a diagnostic accuracy study (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
Hantavirusdashboard (Hantavirus.up)
Andes Hantavirus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship, 2026 (NEJM)
“Super-Spreaders” and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (NEJM)
Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Argentina, 2014 (CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Hantavirus on board with Prof. VincentRacaniello (microbeTV)
Ebola dashboard (ebola.fyi)
Epidemic of Ebola Disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern (WHO)
WHO ramps up support to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak response (WHO: Democratic Republic of Congo)
WHO chief says fast-moving Ebola epidemic is outpacing response efforts (Reuters)
US CDC seeks staff for Ebola screening as outbreak response expands (Reuters)
Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya (NY Times)
Single Immunization With a Monovalent Vesicular Stomatitis Virus–Based Vaccine Protects Nonhuman Primates Against Heterologous Challenge With Bundibugyo ebolavirus (JID)
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Based Vaccines Protect Nonhuman Primates against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
Vaccine experts debate options to combat outbreak of unusual Ebola strain (Science)
NIAID Establishes Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (NIAID.NIH)
Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus (Wired)
NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start (Science)
These Researchers Would Be in Africa Fighting Ebola—but Trump Cut Their Funding (Wired)
Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
Big outbreak, bright lights…Measles Dashboard(South Carolina Department of Public Health)
Utah measles outbreak response (Utah Department of Health and Human Services)
Utah Measles Dashboard (Utah Department of Health and Human Services)
Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins)
Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
Measles (WHO)
Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM)
Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine)
Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Measles During an Outbreak — West Texas,