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Biodefense Headlines – Jan 10, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
January 10, 2016
Biosecurity Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the gain-of-function research debate, good news on Malaria drug for treating Ebola, and preparedness for radiological emergencies.

Contents

  • BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES
  • CHEMICAL WEAPONS
  • SELECT AGENTS
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES
  • OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE
  • RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
  • INDUSTRY NEWS
  • RADIOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR THREATS
  • HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • U.S. needs to exercise leadership at the Biological Weapons Convention (RAND)
  • Project BioShield annual report Jan-Dec 2014 (MedicalCountermeasures.gov)
  • A dead disease still lives in lab freezers. What else does? (NatGeo)
  • Q&A with NCEZID director Beth Bell on infectious disease threats (Nation’s Health)
  • NSABB launches new phase of GOF research debate (CIDRAP)
  • Great expectations—ethics, avian flu and the value of progress (Medical Ethics)
  • Debate over bird flu research moratorium flares up again (NPR)
  • Guidance and other information of interest to MCM stakeholders (FDA)
  • Most states unprepared to handle disease outbreak (UPI)
  • Sharing of research data should be the norm in public health emergencies (MNT)
  • U.S. may lack resources to treat kids in disasters (Reuters)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Use of chemical weapons continues in Syria (Jane’s 360)
  • Withdrawal of decontamination emergency vehicles ‘risks security’ (BBC)
  • Portable NIST kit can recover traces of chemical evidence (NIST)
  • Congress moves on chemical safety reform (C&EN)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Ebola treatment using plasma from survivors is not effective, study says (NY Times)
  • Saving lives: Civil-military response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak (Univ of Sydney) .pdf
  • Malaria drug could be useful treatment against Ebola, study finds (STAT)
  • Ebola can’t escape Israeli mobile isolation units (Jewish Business News)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Last-ditch drug resistance: China and Europe respond (NatGeo)
  • Think your job is hard? Try squirting a vaccine up a camel’s nose (STAT)
  • How to identify a bad vaccine reaction before it happens (Science)
  • Health Matters – tackling antimicrobial resistance (Gov.UK)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Zika: a rare benign virus suddenly turns nasty, and heads for the US (The Conversation)
  • MERS joins the more-environmental-than-you-may-think club (Reflections on IPC)
  • Zika virus in amniotic fluid…but is that enough? (Virology Down Under)
  • U.S. refocuses on testing to fight deadly hog virus (Reuters)
  • Outbreak! What’s the state of your state? (HSDL)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

  • Molecular fingerprint predicts flu shot response (The Scientist)
  • Meet a globe-trotting chemist and builder of “smart molecules” (Biomedical Beat)
  • Viral soldiers – phage therapy to combat bacterial infections (The Scientist)
  • Researchers rein in slice-happy gene editor, CRISPR (Science)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • How biotech went from a risky investment to a booming business (STAT)
  • Cepheid announces distribution agreement with Henry Schein (Cepheid)
  • A challenge to the first CRISPR patent just got teeth (The Scientist)
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific to acquire Affymetrix (Global Biodefense)
  • New company seeks to leverage cellular cleanup crew to halt disease (STAT)

RADIOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR THREATS

  • Preparedness and response for a nuclear or radiological emergency (IAEA)
  • New study examines factors contributing to CBRN pursuit (START)
  • Air Force radiation sniffer plane deployed after North Korea’s nuclear test (WaPo)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • These Victorian-era diseases are making a comeback in a city near you (CityLab)
  • Romanization actually spread parasites (EurekAlert)

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