The year of the flu | Review calls for global fund to fight dangerous superbugs | A discredited vaccine study’s continuing impact on public health | Large cache of US chemical weapons to be destroyed | Ebola: new studies model a deadly epidemic | State of antimicrobial resistance surveillance in the military health system | UK, Canada add to bad news on this year’s flu vaccine | Smartphone Diagnostic | A Health Care Exec Explains Why It’s So Expensive to Invent New Drugs | Call for investment in human capital to tackle antimicrobial resistance | Analysis: Adverse events following MMR vaccine in adults 2003-2013 | Nanoparticles transforming medication delivery | Evaluation of border entry screening for infectious diseases in humans | Avian flu findings reported in 6 far-flung nations | Talking to vaccine resisters | Tracking immunizations one fingerprint at a time | Big data and bacteria: Mapping the New York subway’s DNA | Ebola in pictures: The toll of a tragedy | Influenza – the need to stay ahead of the virus | Ebola virus sent out of high-security lab was likely dead: CDC | Want more vaccinated kids? End religious and personal exemptions | 2016 budget: 1.6 billion for food safety, single food-safety agency | Free from Ebola, survivors complain of new syndrome | Ebola uptick underscores response challenges | Facing down emerging viruses
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on destruction of U.S. chemical weapons, MMR vaccine adverse events, fighting superbugs and more…
The year of the flu (Council of Foreign Relations)
Review calls for global fund to fight dangerous superbugs (Reuters)
A discredited vaccine study’s continuing impact on public health (NY Times)
Large cache of US chemical weapons to be destroyed (BBC)
Ebola: new studies model a deadly epidemic (ASU Biodesign Institute)
State of antimicrobial resistance surveillance in the military health system (AMSUS)
UK, Canada add to bad news on this year’s flu vaccine (CIDRAP)
Smartphone Diagnostic (The Scientist)
A Health Care Exec Explains Why It’s So Expensive to Invent New Drugs (Nextgov)
Call for investment in human capital to tackle antimicrobial resistance (SGM)
Analysis: Adverse events following MMR vaccine in adults 2003-2013 (CID)
Nanoparticles transforming medication delivery (UNM Health Sciences)
Evaluation of border entry screening for infectious diseases in humans (EID)
Avian flu findings reported in 6 far-flung nations (CIDRAP)
Talking to vaccine resisters (New Yorker)
Tracking immunizations one fingerprint at a time (Huff Post Science)
Big data and bacteria: Mapping the New York subway’s DNA (WSJ)
Ebola in pictures: The toll of a tragedy (The Economist)
Influenza – the need to stay ahead of the virus (Eurosurveillance)
Ebola virus sent out of high-security lab was likely dead: CDC (Reuters)
Want more vaccinated kids? End religious and personal exemptions (NY Times)
2016 budget: 1.6 billion for food safety, single food-safety agency (Food Safety News)
Free from Ebola, survivors complain of new syndrome (Reuters)
Ebola uptick underscores response challenges (CIDRAP)
Facing down emerging viruses (The Scientist)
