TWiV 1326: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
From This Week in Virology by Vincent Racaniello
May 30, 2026 · 39 min · Episode 1326
About this episode
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical update on various infectious diseases and public health issues.
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. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode 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)…
People in this episode
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Daniel Griffin
Topics covered
- malaria
- mpox diagnostics
- hantavirus infections
- Ebola outbreak
- measles outbreak
- COVID-19
- public health
Keywords
- malaria
- mpox
- hantavirus
- Ebola
- measles
- RSV
- influenza
- SARS-CoV-2
- long COVID-19
- Paxlovid
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CDC, Johns Hopkins
Places: Texas, Congo, Uganda
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