FluView: weekly influenza surveillance report | Tensions linger over discovery of coronavirus | Feds officially gain control of land for top biosecurity lab | WHO experts endorse inactivated polio vaccine as part of eradication effort | U.S. nonprofliferation strategy for the changing Middle East | Yellow fever outbreak continues in Sudan | Sweeping food safety rules raise more concerns about FDA funding | For God’s sake, go get a flu shot | Surprise choices mark new leadership on U.S. House science panel | Experts differ on HHS select-agent proposal for H5N1 | David Schlyer named chair of Brookhaven’s biosciences department | Technique selectively represses immune system | Review of Bacillus anthracis studies for dose-response modeling to estimate risk | New report signals slowdown in fight against malaria | Yersinia pestis contamination of hard surfaces
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics like anthrax dose-response modeling, influenza surveillance, coronavirus research, Y. pestis contamination and more…
FluView: weekly influenza surveillance report (CDC)
Tensions linger over discovery of coronavirus (Nature)
Feds officially gain control of land for top biosecurity lab (KCUR Kansas)
WHO experts endorse inactivated polio vaccine as part of eradication effort .pdf (WHO)
U.S. nonprofliferation strategy for the changing Middle East .pdf (ISIS)
Yellow fever outbreak continues in Sudan (Relief Web)
Sweeping food safety rules raise more concerns about FDA funding (FSN)
For God’s sake, go get a flu shot (The New Yorker)
Surprise choices mark new leadership on U.S. House science panel (ScienceInsider)
Experts differ on HHS select-agent proposal for H5N1 (CIDRAP)
David Schlyer named chair of Brookhaven’s biosciences department (BNL)
Technique selectively represses immune system (NIH)
Review of Bacillus anthracis studies for dose-response modeling to estimate risk (EPA)
New report signals slowdown in fight against malaria (WHO)
Yersinia pestis contamination of hard surfaces (Landes Bioscience)
