Chemical facility safety and security: A shared commitment | Ohio convict may have made enough ricin to kill ‘hundreds’ | Vaccination and other matters of trust | New H10N8 bird flu ‘not imminent global threat’ | Parsing Pathogens | Leveraging social media in a Sarin attack | An All-of-Government approach to increase resilience for international CBRNE events | Collaboration and medical countermeasures: Furthering regulatory science | Senate confirms Sylvia Burwell as new HHS Chief | Avon Protection secures 33M order for US DoD | WHO: Infection control gaps helped fuel UAE MERS surge | Provista expands license agreement for Biodesign biomarker technologies | A new weapon in the battle against MRSA | Next generation public health: Can laboratories enhance value stream? | Mideast envoys weigh two new bids to jolt WMD-Ban talks | Novel methods in dynamic infrared and visible hyperspectral scenes | DHS shifts nuclear-screening focus to ‘high-risk’ cargo

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense News on topics like CBRNE event resilience, H10N8 influenza, MRSA research, MERS and infection control gaps in Saudi Arabia and more…

Chemical facility safety and security: A shared commitment (HSDL)

Ohio convict may have made enough ricin to kill ‘hundreds’ (NTI GSN)

Vaccination and other matters of trust (The Pump Handle)

New H10N8 bird flu ‘not imminent global threat’ (BBC News)

Parsing Pathogens (The Scientist)

Leveraging social media in a Sarin attack (Clinicians’ Biosecurity News)

An All-of-Government approach to increase resilience for international CBRNE events (NAP)

Collaboration and medical countermeasures: Furthering regulatory science (FDA)

Senate confirms Sylvia Burwell as new HHS Chief (WebMD)

Avon Protection secures 33M order for US DoD (CBRNe Portal)

WHO: Infection control gaps helped fuel UAE MERS surge (CIDRAP)

Provista expands license agreement for Biodesign biomarker technologies (ASU)