Biodefense News Headlines of the Week

Cyclospora illnesses up to 596 | Infectious disease could become more common in a warmer world | New standing headquarters focuses on WMD elimination | Fire hits unfinished Army biodefense lab | New palm-sized microarray technique grows 1,200 individual cultures | Superbug crisis shows antibiotic development “alarmingly elusive” | Al Qaeda trying to harness toxins for bombs, officials fear | CDC tweaks MERS guidance; WHO notes fewer exported cases | New Middle Eastern virus linked to camels | Protein that delays cell division may lead to new antibiotics | Joint Service Physical Protection branch expertise in chem-bio threats | Sanofi dengue bid seen as 2.6 billion hit or major flop | The ‘gold’ standard: A rapid, cheap method of detecting dengue virus | Technique adds “kill-switch” to modified flu viruses | Cell host response to novel coronavirus predicts potential antivirals | New hope for improved TB treatment

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics like climate change and infectious disease, MERS link to camels, cyclospora case count and more…

Cyclospora illnesses up to 596 (Food Safety News)

Infectious disease could become more common in a warmer world (Time)

New standing headquarters focuses on WMD elimination (AFP)

Fire hits unfinished Army biodefense lab (NTI GSN)

New palm-sized microarray technique grows 1,200 individual cultures (EurekAlert)

Superbug crisis shows antibiotic development “alarmingly elusive” (HSNW)

Al Qaeda trying to harness toxins for bombs, officials fear (NYTimes)

CDC tweaks MERS guidance; WHO notes fewer exported cases (CIDRAP)

New Middle Eastern virus linked to camels (Time)

Protein that delays cell division may lead to new antibiotics (WUSTL)

Joint Service Physical Protection branch expertise in chem-bio threats (ECBC)

Sanofi dengue bid seen as 2.6 billion hit or major flop (Bloomberg)