Containing Ebola: 7 next-gen rapid diagnostic tests | Dengue fever researchers in military weigh infecting volunteers | 3 potential Ebola therapies to be tested; Liberia lifts emergency | Outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease kills seven in Portugal | Uganda declared Marburg free | What data can do to stop pandemics | Time to fund medical countermeasures against threats like Ebola | Omics find chinks in Ebola armor for vaccine and drug development | Fast-spreading killers: how Ebola compares with other diseases | Interrogating the host interactome for Ebola virus weakness | Enabling rapid and sustainable public health research during disasters | Scientist recognized for role in smallpox eradication | Advisory committee on Ebola experimental interventions | How culture-independent diagnostics threaten public health surveillance | 10 years of surveillance of human Tularemia in France | WHO warns that progress towards eliminating measles has stalled | Findings of the first imported case of MERS-CoV to the U.S. | Researchers to test new treatments in countries hit hardest by Ebola | Ebola response hospital in Liberia opens | Ebola treatment trials to start at MSF sites in December | From epidemic to bioterrorism: mitigating contractor risks | Senate committee probes proposed US Ebola funding
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on the pursuit of Ebola diagnostics, measles eradication efforts stalling, MERS-CoV in the U.S. and more…
Containing Ebola: 7 next-gen rapid diagnostic tests (MDDI)
Dengue fever researchers in military weigh infecting volunteers (WSJ)
3 potential Ebola therapies to be tested; Liberia lifts emergency (NPR)
Outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease kills seven in Portugal (Newsweek)
Uganda declared Marburg free (AllAfrica)
What data can do to stop pandemics (NextGov)
Time to fund medical countermeasures against threats like Ebola (The Hill)
Omics find chinks in Ebola armor for vaccine and drug development (GEN)
Fast-spreading killers: how Ebola compares with other diseases (The Conversation)
Interrogating the host interactome for Ebola virus weakness (Accelerating Proteomics)
Enabling rapid and sustainable public health research during disasters (NAP)
Scientist recognized for role in smallpox eradication (The Lancet)
Advisory committee on Ebola experimental interventions (WHO)
How culture-independent diagnostics threaten public health surveillance (FSN)
10 years of surveillance of human Tularemia in France (Eurosurveillance)
WHO warns that progress towards eliminating measles has stalled (ReliefWeb)
Findings of the first imported case of MERS-CoV to the U.S. (CID)
Researchers to test new treatments in countries hit hardest by Ebola (NY Times)
Ebola response hospital in Liberia opens (DoD)
Ebola treatment trials to start at MSF sites in December (MSF)
From epidemic to bioterrorism: mitigating contractor risks (Above the Law)