Epic failures feeding Ebola crisis | With bio-threats on the rise, US focuses on global cooperation, rapid detection | Bad bugs inspire White House task force and $20 million prize | What real Ebola situational awareness looks like | Deficiencies in U.S. nuclear labs’ emergency preparedness plans | The dire need for a rapid diagnostic test for Ebola in W. Africa | Smallpox biotech Siga files for bankruptcy over PharmAthene spat | Confronting biological plagues | Q&A: Pandemic flu – Preparing for the next unknown | How the media is covering Ebola | Very few aircraft equipped to evacuate Ebola patients | Pitt scientists collaborate in effort to combat the deadly MERS virus | Scientists see risk of mutant airborne Ebola as remote | What we are not afraid to say about Ebola | White House CIO steps down, returns to USAID to work on Ebola response | The wind beneath my Ebola virus… | Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea | Next generation blood-cleansing device | Hackers ‘swooped’ on biological warfare study | A virologist in Liberia’s hot zone | At least 34 Syrian children die from contaminated measles vaccine | Deadly distrust | Genetic evolution: how the Ebola virus changes and adapts | Taking a health hazard home | DHS’s lax internal pandemic preparedness gets stern rebuke
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on pandemic preparedness, the escalating Ebola outbreak, White House antimicrobial task force and more…
Epic failures feeding Ebola crisis (Council on Foreign Relations)
With bio-threats on the rise, US focuses on global cooperation, rapid detection (HS Today)
Bad bugs inspire White House task force and $20 million prize (Science)
What real Ebola situational awareness looks like (Operational Biosurveillance)
Deficiencies in U.S. nuclear labs’ emergency preparedness plans (HSNW)
The dire need for a rapid diagnostic test for Ebola in W. Africa (Forbes)
Smallpox biotech Siga files for bankruptcy over PharmAthene spat (Fierce Biotech)
Confronting biological plagues (GEN)
Q&A: Pandemic flu – Preparing for the next unknown (Texas A&M)
How the media is covering Ebola (SciLogs)
Very few aircraft equipped to evacuate Ebola patients (CIDRAP)
Pitt scientists collaborate in effort to combat the deadly MERS virus (Post-Gazette)
Scientists see risk of mutant airborne Ebola as remote (Reuters)
What we are not afraid to say about Ebola (Virology Blog)
White House CIO steps down, returns to USAID to work on Ebola response (Washington Post)
The wind beneath my Ebola virus… (Virology Down Under)
Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea (New England Journal of Medicine)
Next generation blood-cleansing device (The Scientist)
Hackers ‘swooped’ on biological warfare study (Sky News)
A virologist in Liberia’s hot zone (Science)
At least 34 Syrian children die from contaminated measles vaccine (The Guardian)
Deadly distrust (Aetiology)
Genetic evolution: how the Ebola virus changes and adapts (The Conversation)
Taking a health hazard home (NY Times)
DHS’s lax internal pandemic preparedness gets stern rebuke (HS Today)
