Syrian nerve gas claims undermined by eyewitness accounts | Undersecretary of the Army visits ECBC for Team CBRNE demo | WHO launches emergency response to antimalarial drug resistance | Nanotechnology offers small food for thought | Past exposures may help explain H7N9 age profile | H7N9 update; CDC pandemic preparedness activities progress | Medicines for Malaria and WHO launch new malaria map tool | Chickens pegged as source of H7N9 | Why Emergent BioSolutions paid 26M for anti-chem lotion from Bracco | NYPD to study movement of airborne agents | MRSA dropping in hospitals; elsewhere not so much | Emerging infectious diseases and biodefense vaccines and therapeutics | Martial arts instructor arrested in Obama ricin letter probe | Focus shifts in ricin case as charges are dropped on initial suspect | Clues to making vaccine for infant respiratory illness | Novel coronavirus summary and literature update | Reasonable or ridiculous? Republicans balk at funding request for NBAF | Scientists through new light on DNA copying process

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics like antimalarial drug resistance, nerve gas use in Syria, novel coronavirus infection update and more…

Syrian nerve gas claims undermined by eyewitness accounts (The Guardian)

Undersecretary of the Army visits ECBC for Team CBRNE demo (ECBC)

WHO launches emergency response to antimalarial drug resistance (WHO)

Nanotechnology offers small food for thought (The Guardian)

Past exposures may help explain H7N9 age profile (CIDRAP)

H7N9 update; CDC pandemic preparedness activities progress (CDC)

Medicines for Malaria and WHO launch new malaria map tool (MMV)

Chickens pegged as source of H7N9 (MedPage Today)

Why Emergent BioSolutions paid 26M for anti-chem lotion from Bracco (BioSpace)

NYPD to study movement of airborne agents (NTI GSN)

MRSA dropping in hospitals; elsewhere not so much (CIDRAP)

Emerging infectious diseases and biodefense vaccines and therapeutics (Infocast)