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Biodefense Headlines – Nov 22, 2015

by Global Biodefense Staff
November 22, 2015
MERS Cornavirus for Biodefense Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including France’s chemical defense posture, shortfalls in public health funding, filovirus vaccine research and more…

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Chemical weapons attack on Europe seems highly unlikely (The Guardian)
  • Iraqi officials say ISIS has branch dedicated to chemical weapons (Newsweek)
  • French medics are given supplies of nerve gas antidote (The Times)
  • ISIS are preparing a chemical attack, warns French PM (Daily Mail)
  • French PM Manuel Valls says chemical warfare risk not ruled out (NDTV)

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Principles for a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East (U.S. State Department)
  • U.S. public health funding on the decline (Reuters)
  • Living Weapons: A scholarly analysis of biodefense (Tracking Zebra)
  • International cooperation on WMD nonproliferation (CNS)
  • What crisis? Scholarship and national security (War on the Rocks)
  • Innovation in medical countermeasures as a critical enabler for biodefense (The Hill)
  • Ebola outbreak: A system that failed (Harvard Gazette)
  • Elimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction – Lessons learned (CNS)
  • Why FDA should oversee laboratory developed tests (MDT)
  • Biohackers push life to the limits with DIY biology (The Guardian)
  • N.I.H. to end backing for invasive research on chimps (NY Times)

SELECT AGENTS

  • An anthrax toxin variant with an improved activity in tumor targeting (Nature)
  • Studies show Ebola RNA stable in blood, promise for filovirus vaccine (CIDRAP)
  • Substrate-based inhibitors against Botulinum Neurotoxin A intoxication (Nature)
  • Ebolavirus evolution: Past and present (PLOS Pathogens)
  • Polyphosphate Kinase 2 from the intracellular pathogen F. tularensis (PubMed)
  • Sequencing irradiated anthrax (LabRoots)
  • Recombinant expression of B. anthracis lethal toxin components… (Science Direct)
  • Reports probe semen Ebola viability, survivor eye problems (CIDRAP)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • New superbug in China threatens to defeat last-resort antibiotics (Stat)
  • Modeling a postantibiotic world (UPMC Clinicians’ Biosecurity News)
  • USDA issues 2nd request for proposals for HPAI vaccine (Avian Flu Diary)
  • Is the antibiotic apocalypse nigh? (The Conversation)
  • Fighting to eradicate neglected zoonotic diseases in Africa (MNT)
  • Why the world is falling behind in the campaign to kill measles (NPR)
  • CDC flu vaccine selfie contest (CDC)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Health authorities: 3 new Ebola cases in Liberia (Seattle Times)
  • Communicable disease risks associated with the movement of refugees (Eurosuveillance)
  • Ebola returns to Liberia, but it’s not clear how the 10-year-old got it (NPR)
  • New Ebola cases hit Liberia after country declared virus free (Reuters)
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases journal spotlight on MERS (CDC)
  • The next outbreak: Public health emergency prevention, preparation and response (Healio)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

  • RFPs: The best and the brightest (NIST)
  • Researchers design and patent graphene biosensors (MNT)
  • Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering technology for on-site detection (HSNW)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Italy’s first biotech accelerator (European Biotechnology)
  • NCT CBRNe Awards 2015 Winners announced in Bangkok (IB Consultancy)
  • Aethlon Medical announces fiscal 2016 second quarter results (Aethlon)
  • Can Flir Systems Incorporated hit expected sales of 392.262M? (Daily News)
  • Proove Biosciences appoints Eric Fung, M.D. Ph.D., as Chief Scientific Officer (PRWeb)
  • New ownership to fuel further growth and innovation at BBI Group (IB Consultancy)
  • Kymab implements Genedata Biologics for high-throughput antibody discovery (PRWeb)
  • Vaxart presents positive preclinical data for oral RSV vaccine (BusinessWire)

DETECTION & PROTECTION

  • Army scientists improve biosurveillance technology (HDIAC)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • The Black Death in the Ottoman Empire and Ragusan Republic (Contagions)
  • Venetian leaders considered biological warfare in 17th century siege (Healio)

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