In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vaccinology, the Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem, new screwworm cases, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda and an import case into France, end of the hantavirus outbreak 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, outbreak of measles in Cook County Illionis in 2025, loss of measles elimination in the US, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, publication of the blocked COVID-19 vaccine findings, 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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Health and economic burdens of emerging infectious diseases in the USA, US territories and globally (BMJ Journal of Global Health)
Meeting People Where They Are: Scientist-Creators Delivering Trusted Health Information on Social Media and Beyond (The Evidence Collective)
Vaccine Integrity Project, The Evidence Collective announce projects to improve vaccine policy, restore trust (CIDRAP)
Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease Associated with Cooling Tower Systems in Central Harlem (NEJM Evidence)
Dashboard SCREWWORM.Gov (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for New World Screwworm Response (CDC Newroom)
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)
France confirms first Ebola case (BBC)
Hantavirusdashboard (Hantavirus.up)
Hantavirus on board with Prof. VincentRacaniello (microbeTV)
Health agencies signal end of quarantine period for cruise-linked Andes virus outbreak (DG:Alerts)
HHS Successfully Concludes Hantavirus Response Effort; Monitoring Ends with No Positive U.S. Case (US: HHS)
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)
Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola)
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)
Measles Outbreak in Cook County, Illinois, September–October 2025 (NEJM Evidence)
CDC ‘transitioning away’ from diagnostic testing for measles, mumps (POLITICO PRO)
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Call it what it is—the US has lost its hold on measles elimination (CIDRAP)
Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
USrespiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)