[PREVIEW] Situation Report - August 21st 2026

Welcome back to episode four of the SitRep Join Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe for updates on the latest epidemiology and infectious disease news from around the world. This episode covers leptospirosis in the Dominican Republic, Chandipura virus in India, measles at a Swedish folk festival, how Ebola is also impacting malaria in the DRC, a bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) case in Scotland, and zoonotic influenza events in China, the US, and Australia.

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