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Biodefense Headlines – Dec 20, 2015

by Global Biodefense Staff
December 20, 2015
Biodefense and Biosecurity Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including MERS coronavirus vaccine development, Bioweapons Prevention Project, and the CBRNE Defense Act.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Complacency, underfunding fuel state readiness gaps (CIDRAP)
  • NAS panel tackles—and is tackled by—genome editing in animals (Science)
  • The 2015 Meeting of States Parties (Bioweapons Prevention Project) .pdf
  • Growing threat of bioterrorism from the surge of global terror (CBRNe Portal)
  • Report notes deficiencies of MSF Ebola triage system (CIDRAP)
  • House passes DHS CBRNE Defense Act of 2015 (GovTrack)
  • It’s official: The NIH budget is getting an extra 2B (STAT News)
  • Forging new partnerships for healthcare preparedness (DomPrep)
  • More countries are seeing a last-ditch antibiotic failing (NatGeo)
  • A Crispr future – a game changer (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
  • Congress approves historic increase in food safety funding (PEW Trusts)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • U.S. official says use of chemical weapons is ‘routine’ in Syria (Reuters)
  • Da’esh as a hybrid threat to European security (CBRNe Portal)

SELECT AGENTS

  • New symptoms surface in Ebola patients months after initial recovery (Reuters)
  • Anthrax crisis standards of care (Bifurcated Needle)
  • Female survivor may be cause of Ebola flare-up in Liberia (Reuters)
  • Surface contamination and respiratory viruses with pandemic potential (IPC Reflections)
  • Tularaemia: clinical aspects in Europe (The Lancet)
  • Online ‘recipes’ for bird flu virus add to bioterrorism threat (The Age)
  • Experimental Ebola vaccine could tamp out last embers of outbreak (STAT News)
  • Pregnancy as an Ebola Potentiator: Trying to Understand the Liberian cluster (Tracking Zebra)
  • Duration of immune responses after Ebola virus vaccination (The Lancet)
  • From joint aches to insomnia, Ebola’s effects linger in survivors (NPR)
  • EU Lessons learned for Public Health from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (EUR-Lex)
  • Disease specialists identify post-Ebola threats (Nature)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Mers vaccine ‘a step closer’, say scientists (BBC News)
  • Studies uncover MERS patterns in camels, vaccine potential (CIDRAP)
  • When the flu vax fails (The Scientist)
  • Acetaminophen may do no good for flu (Reuter)
  • Proposal: Set international targets for farm antibiotic use (NatGeo)
  • Why the flu vaccine is less effective in the elderly (EurekAlert)
  • New York City’s flu shot mandate for young children is struck down (NY Times)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • France reports new bird flu strain as outbreak spreads (Reuters)
  • Explainer: What is the “flesh-eating” disease that’s spreading across Syria? (IFL Science)
  • UF researchers call for close attention to flu viruses (Emerging Pathogens Institute)
  • French bird flu poses no risk to humans – minister (Reuters)
  • Superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotics now found on multiple continent (STAT News)
  • Group A streptococcal infections: activity during the 2015 to 2016 season (Gov.UK)
  • Real life epidemiologists play the Pandemic: Legacy video game (NPR)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

  • Nanodevices at one-hundredth the cost (MIT News)
  • How a switchable polymer could combat antibiotic resistance (C&EN)
  • NIH-funded trials dip, industry trials on the rise (Reuters)
  • Fast diagnostics with polarized light (MDT)
  • NIH releases first agency-wide strategic plan in 2 decades (Science)
  • Which studies got the most media buzz in 2015? (Science)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Yisheng Biopharma and USAMRIID collaborate on new vaccine against Ebola virus (PR Newswire)
  • Luminex receives FDA clearance for NxTAG respiratory pathogen panel (Luminex)
  • AirBoss of America Corp. director sells 45,000 shares (DFN)
  • Our industry has a war on talent (Medical Design Technology)

RADIOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR THREATS

  • Searching for CBRNe ID threats (European Defence Agency)
  • Vote at atomic agency officially ends inquiry into iran’s nuclear past (NY Times)

DETECTION & PROTECTION

  • Contamination of health care personnel during removal of PPE (JAMA)

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