In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are distressed by the continuing government shutdown, first locally acquired chikungunya virus infection, President Trump's suggestion for removing aluminum from vaccines, H5N1 isolation from backyard birds and turkey farms, and the suggestion of establishing an alternative to the CDC's MMWR and asymptomatic measles infections before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, the quarantining in the US due to measles, access to anti-influenza antiviral, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, can you be retreated with Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, if colchicine is effective for long COVID, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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• New York health officials confirm state's first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus (AP News)
• Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum (NY Times)
• Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood (Annals of Internal Medicine)
• Three large turkey farms in Minnesota hit with H5N1 avian flu (CIDRAP)
• Confirmations of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial and Backyard Flocks (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
• Jeffrey Lee McLean (California.No)
• California mpox cases raise concerns. But health officials say the risk remains low (AP News)
• 'Alternative' to CDC's Flagship Journal in the Works (MEDPAGE TODAY)
• Measles without rash during acute febrile illness surveillance in Tanzania, 2023-2024 (CID)
• Frustration grows amid measles outbreak quarantines across several states (NBC News)
• More Than 100 Cases of Measles Reported in Utah and Arizona (NY Times)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins)
• 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 recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• 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)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• ACIP Recommendations Summary (CDC: Influenza)
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Flu and Children (CDC: Influenza (flu))
• Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season(FDA)
• Roche to sell flu pill for $50 to cash-paying US patients (Reuters)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/php/surveillan