In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello express concern about vaccine policy and ACIP, scaling back of the CDC’s role in global public health, shingles vaccine and dementia, new screwworm cases, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda and where the hantavirus outbreak began, 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, Virgina outbreak of measles, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, how more people were negatively impacted by influenza than COVID, discontinuing contact precautions for COVID, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Today we filed a motion asking the First Circuit to expedite our appeal of the district court’s order in the AAP lawsuit that left ACIP—the nation’s vaccine advisory committee—without a quorum (X)
CDC advisers drop decades-old universal hepatitis B birth dose recommendation, suggest blood testing after 1 dose (CIDRAP)
HHS asks for expedited appeal of court ruling on US vaccine policy (CIDRAP)
New Plan Scales Back C.D.C.’s Work on Diseases Abroad (NY Times)
Zoster Vaccination and Dementia: Interpreting the Signal and Testing the Mechanisms (CID)
Safety and Immunogenicity of 1 or 2 Additional Doses of the Adjuvanted Recombinant Zoster Vaccine Administered 5–6 Years After Primary Vaccination in Adults ≥50 Years (OFID)
Dashboard SCREWWORM.Gov (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for New World Screwworm Response (CDC Newroom)
Head-to-head comparison suggests flu was much more likely to lead to hospitalization than COVID last winter (CIDRAP)
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Generic Over-the-Counter Drug to Treat New World Screwworm in Dogs and Cats (FDA)
Fact Sheet: Emergency Use Authorization of Nitenpyram Tablets (nitenpyram) for New World Screwworm (NWS) (FDA)
Ebola dashboard (ebola.fyi)
EBOLA:The Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2026 (WHO)
Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak Democratic Republic of the Congo (WHO: Democratic Republic of Congo)
Ebola Outbreak: Current Situation (CDC:Ebola)
Big Ebola outbreak puts spotlight on little known virus (Science)
Ebola outbreak spreads to crowded displacement camp in Congo (Reuters)
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo expands into large displacement camp (CIDRAP)
Congo Ebola outbreak may be worst ever, Africa CDC says (Reuters)
Advocacy groups are urging the release of the monoclonal antibody MBP134 and any other requested investigational therapeutics (Citizen.org)
Hantavirus dashboard (Hantavirus.up
Hantavirus on board with Prof. Vincent Racaniello (microbeTV)
How did the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak start? (Science)
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)
UtahMeasles Dashboard (Utah Department of Health and Human Services)
US measles cases continue to climb, especially in Virginia(CIDRAP)
Measles (VDH: Virginia Department of Health)
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)