Internal audit slams DHS for canceling technology to fight bio-threats | Astute clinicians: The best defense against bioterrorism | Is the military prepared to combat antimicrobial resistance? | FDA panel endorses WHO picks for 2015-16 flu vaccine | An update on bioterrorism-related conditions | Inspector testing positive for deadly bacteria didn’t get it at Louisiana lab | MRIGlobal’s portable glove box featured in CTTSO 2014 Annual Review | The year of global health security and neglected tropical diseases | Chikungunya vaccine looks promising in phase 1 trial | Virus mapping in 3D using x-ray pulses | Pentagon funding program opens door to U.K. collaboration | Nanobombs terminate food microbes | Have tech solutions helped quell Ebola? | The fourth-deadliest outbreak in U.S. history | CNBC publishes an antivaccine press release | Second Los Angeles hospital identifies ‘superbug’ infections | Army Research Laboratory releases comprehensive S&T plan | Fact or fiction: Vaccines are dangerous | Escape of dangerous bacterium leads to halt of risky studies at Tulane | Lab-on-paper for rapid, inexpensive immune-detection tests | Disease burden of influenza
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on the role of clinicians in biodefense, lab-on-paper biodetection, virus mapping and more …
Internal audit slams DHS for canceling technology to fight bio-threats (Washington Post)
Astute clinicians: The best defense against bioterrorism (Bifurcated Needle)
Is the military prepared to combat antimicrobial resistance? (Armed with Science)
FDA panel endorses WHO picks for 2015-16 flu vaccine (CIDRAP)
An update on bioterrorism-related conditions (Clinicians’ Biosecurity News)
Inspector testing positive for deadly bacteria didn’t get it at Louisiana lab (Reuters)
MRIGlobal’s portable glove box featured in CTTSO 2014 Annual Review (CBRNE Tech Index)
The year of global health security and neglected tropical diseases (Bifurcated Needle)
Chikungunya vaccine looks promising in phase 1 trial (CIDRAP)
Virus mapping in 3D using x-ray pulses (Physics World)
Pentagon funding program opens door to U.K. collaboration (Science Insider)
Nanobombs terminate food microbes (The Scientist)
The fourth-deadliest outbreak in U.S. history (Food Safety News)
CNBC publishes an antivaccine press release (Science Blogs)
Second Los Angeles hospital identifies ‘superbug’ infections (Reuters)
Army Research Laboratory releases comprehensive S&T plan (Armed with Science)
Fact or fiction: Vaccines are dangerous (Scientific American)
Escape of dangerous bacterium leads to halt of risky studies at Tulane (Science Insider)
Lab-on-paper for rapid, inexpensive immune-detection tests (MDT)
