Some U.S. flu markers turning downward | USAMRIID: Biodefense from the Cold War to present day | Tracking internet searches to predict disease outbreak | Fight the flu, hurt society? | 4 polio cases in FATA, Pakistan, are the first in 2014 | A world without antibiotics? The risk is real | A superbug fix? Agribusiness doesn’t think so | Putin decree shakes up Russian science funding | Tuberculosis control in the gold mines of South Africa | U.S. science agencies get some relief in 2014 budget | Georgia men found guilty in ‘Waffle House’ ricin plot | CDC updates guidelines on preventing, treating anthrax | Flu vaccine reduces risk of flu illness in pregnant women by half | We face being buried under an avalanche of Chinese science | 4 polio cases in FATA, Pakistan, are the first in 2014

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics like superbugs and agribusiness, science agency funding, guilty verdict for the Georgia ricin plot suspects and more…

Some U.S. flu markers turning downward (CIDRAP)

USAMRIID: Biodefense from the Cold War to present day (APHL LabLog)

Tracking internet searches to predict disease outbreak (HSNW)

Fight the flu, hurt society? (Science)

4 polio cases in FATA, Pakistan, are the first in 2014 (CIDRAP)

A world without antibiotics? The risk is real (Yahoo News)

A superbug fix? Agribusiness doesn’t think so (CNBC)

Putin decree shakes up Russian science funding (Science)

Tuberculosis control in the gold mines of South Africa (NEJM)

U.S. science agencies get some relief in 2014 budget (Science Insider)

Georgia men found guilty in ‘Waffle House’ ricin plot (NTI GSN)

CDC updates guidelines on preventing, treating anthrax (CIDRAP)