TWiV 1370: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by the continued upheaval of leadership at the CDC, recent news of H5 highly pathogenic influenza virus found on mink farms in Utah and in the polar bear population of Greenland, continuing spread of dengue virus in Florida and screwworm in the US, the Ebola outbreak in Kenya, identification of cross-reactive T cells following administration of VSV-ZEBOV-GP vaccine and re-addressing vaccination policy changes in Florida and the global burden of measles infection before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics RSV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2 infections and measles, ineffectiveness of the measles vaccine in infants under 9 months old, efficacy of  high dose and standard dose of the influenza vaccine for the elderly, familial susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Links for this episode C.D.C. Deputy Director Resigns After Four Months in the JobFinds(NY Times) Preliminary report on H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Utah mink, August 2026(Virological) Evidence of Exposure to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5 Viruses in East Greenland Polar Bears (CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases) Florida counties declare emergency over wildly unusual dengue outbreak (Washington Post) Dengue (WHO:Dengue) Dashboard SCREWWORM.Gov (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for New World Screwworm Response (CDC Newroom) Cross-reactive T-cell responses against BDBV in humans after rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP vaccination (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) Kenya reports 2nd Ebola death as Nigeria races to understand transmission of index patient(CIDRAP) Kenya reports second death from Ebola (Reuters) Ebola DRC (X) Ebola dashboard (ebola.fyi) EBOLA: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2026(WHO) Projected effects of removing school-entry vaccination requirements on measles transmission in Florida (PNAS) Removing Florida vaccination requirements: Clinical Update TWiV 1352 (microbeTV) TWiV 1369: Florida Model Makes Measles Great Again (microbeTV) Global and regional burden of measles and vaccine coverage among children under 5 years, 1990−2023: a Global Burden of Disease Study (Nature Medicine) Global measles cases in kids rose 40% from 2020 to 2023, study estimates(CIDRAP) As meas