Pursuit of on-demand blood could yield novel means for therapeutic delivery | New Middle Eastern virus found in camels | Pentagon making costly foray into biodefense drug business | Eyeing terrorist potential, Pentagon seeks vaccine against Q-Fever | Sarin gas attacks in Syria: What if it happened in the US? | CDC competition encourages use of social media to predict flu | NIH announces 15 translational science awards | Biosensor tracks drugs in real time | Off-shore barges considered for destroying Syria’s chemical weapons | ECBC partners with JPM-Elimination for decontamination training | Nanosponge vaccine fights MRSA toxins | US tularemia case count holding steady | Children in typhoon-hit Philippines receive vaccines | Universal malaria killer | Pentagon biowarfare defense effort seen as repeating HHS work

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics like Q-Fever vaccine development, DoD vs. HHS medical countermeasure overlap, vaccination campaigns in the Philippines and more…

Pursuit of on-demand blood could yield novel means for therapeutic delivery (DARPA)

New Middle Eastern virus found in camels (Science Insider)

Pentagon making costly foray into biodefense drug business (LA Times)

Eyeing terrorist potential, Pentagon seeks vaccine against Q-Fever (NTI GSN)

Sarin gas attacks in Syria: What if it happened in the US? (APHL)

CDC competition encourages use of social media to predict flu (CDC)

NIH announces 15 translational science awards (NIH News)

Biosensor tracks drugs in real time (Science Insider)

Off-shore barges considered for destroying Syria’s chemical weapons (HSNW)

ECBC partners with JPM-Elimination for decontamination training (Army)

Nanosponge vaccine fights MRSA toxins (Science Daily)

US tularemia case count holding steady (CIDRAP News Scan)