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Biodefense Headlines – Jan 31, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
January 31, 2016
Biodefense Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the rising threat of Zika, CBRNE resilience strategies, and immune modeling for biodefense.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Modeling immunity for biodefense (NIAID)
  • Rise of the bugs, and DoD the biosurveillance enterprise (Armed with Science)
  • Countering bioterror (The Cipher Brief)
  • Biodefense panel concerned as Zika, avian influenza expand their reach (Ridge Global)
  • American biodefense: How dangerous ideas about bioweapons shape national security (AIIA)
  • Borders and migration: an issue of global health importance (The Lancet)
  • Increased funding for biodefense and preparedness good for America (Alliance for Biosecurity)
  • New roles for global health: diplomatic, security, and foreign policy responsiveness (The Lancet)
  • CBRNE resilience strategy for Canada (Public Safety Canada)
  • Ebola funds impossible to track (Oxfam International)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Report: Lessons learned from the OPCW mission in Syria (OPCW) .pdf
  • Syria: The story of the conflict (BBC)
  • OPCW laboratory fellowship (OPCW)
  • Gates: Obama hurt US credibility when he backed down from Syria red line (Business Insider)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Army lab unit earns award for Ebola response in Liberia (Army Times)
  • Antimicrobial treatment for systemic anthrax 1945-2014 (Health Security)
  • UK is ‘vulnerable’ to next Ebola outbreak (BBC)
  • Antitoxin treatment of inhalation anthrax: A systematic review (Health Security)
  • Genotyping Yersinia pestis in historical plague (PLOS)
  • Nanopore sequencing as a rapidly deployable Ebola outbreak tool (CDC)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Unnecessary antibiotic use and patient safety (Pew)
  • Bacteria-fighting antitoxins offer remedy to antibiotic resistance (STAT)
  • Race for Zika vaccine gathers momentum as virus spreads (Reuters)
  • Genetically modified mosquitoes join the fight to stop Zika virus (NPR)
  • Monitoring cellular shape and appearance for antibiotic resistance (STAT)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • The Zika virus: A “virgin soil” epidemic (OUP Blog)
  • Zika isn’t the only virus worsened by El Niño (City Lab)
  • Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma and Leishmania Species (PLOS)
  • Mystery device in San Francisco is air sampler to detect biological attack (CBS)
  • The Zika virus isn’t just an epidemic. It’s here to stay (Foreign Policy)
  • Guinea worm disease nears eradication (The Lancet)
  • Zika virus, open-source disease modeling, and more (Pandora Report)
  • Tuberculosis transmission on aircraft (Eurosurveillance)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • GenArraytion introduces first commercially test to identify Zika virus (BW)
  • Big pharma’s bet on big data creates opportunities and risks (Reuters)
  • MRIGlobal hosts health security expert panel at ASM Biodefense (MRIGlobal)
  • CosmosID raises $6 million in Series B funding (EurekAlert)
  • GAO rules against Lovelace protest of BNBI contract (GAO)
  • Hawaii Biotech joins race to develop Zika vaccine (Reuters)
  • Biodefense market overview (PharmAthene)

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