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Biodefense Headlines – Feb 7, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 7, 2016
Global Biodefense Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the race for Zika countermeasures, thermostable vaccine development, and rapid assays for botulinum neurotoxins.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Gene wars: targeted mutations will spawn unique dangers, and soon (Forbes)
  • Partisan split threatens progress on bill to speed drug approvals (STAT)
  • Improving DHS’ biological detection and surveillance programs (House.gov)
  • Christie calls for quarantining people returning from Zika-stricken Brazil (STAT)
  • Army dodged catastrophe in anthrax scandal (Military.com)
  • U.S. health secretary to brief lawmakers on efforts over Zika virus (Reuters)
  • Firefighters and haz-mat response (Firefighter Nation)
  • USDA, Obama commit to food safety research (Food Safety News)
  • Expert warns of anthrax repeat without security improvements (Stars & Stripes)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Rapid microfluidic assay for botulinum neurotoxin in animal sera (MDPI)
  • Ghana assesses Ebola preparedness at points of entry (IOM)
  • Why it’s wrong to compare Zika to Ebola (The Conversation)
  • Naval Station practices response to potential ricin attack (Chicago Tribune)
  • Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance (Nature)
  • Murine toxin from Y. pestis shows high toxicity and β-adrenergic blocking (Science Direct)
  • Poisonous ornamental plants to avoid in community gardens (Grand Forks Herald)
  • LAMP1 binding of the Lassa virus glycoprotein spike (PLOS Pathogens)
  • Characterization of thermophilic lipase from Burkholderia pseudomallei (AASCIT)
  • Attenuation of a select agent-excluded B. pseudomallei capsule mutant (Science Direct)
  • Modeling the hazards associated with botulinum neurotoxin in food (ASM)
  • Sensing a Bacillis anthracis biomarker with EuTta3Phen (JMC)
  • Sandoval County woman hospitalized with hantavirus (SFNM)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Less than half of U.S. kids under age two fully vaccinated against flu (Reuters)
  • Can thermostable vaccines help address cold-chain challenges? (Vaccine)
  • Narcolepsy boy wins £120k swine flu vaccine damages (BBC News)
  • Planes arriving from Zika-infected regions to be sprayed with insecticides (HSNW)
  • UTSA researcher receives 670K grant to fight malaria (EurekAlert)
  • Companies announce new Zika vaccine initiatives (CIDRAP)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Zika: what we’re still missing (Aetiology)
  • U of M study says farmers may have aided bird flu’s spread (Star Tribune)
  • Urine found to contain infectious Zika virus…again… (Virology Down Under)
  • Mapping Zika: From a monkey in Uganda to a growing global concern (NPR)
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus update (WHO)
  • Few Zika samples are being shared by Brazil, worrying international research (STAT)
  • Take those food-outbreak headlines with a grain of salt (Fortune)
  • First autopsy of MERS patient reveals extensive lung damage (CIDRAP)
  • CDC sees major challenges ahead in the fight against Zika (NPR)
  • Zika infection transmitted by sex reported in Texas (NY Times)
  • What we know so far about sexual transmission of Zika Virus (NPR)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Global Health Investment Fund provides capital to Atomo Diagnostics (BW)
  • Leidos to research chemical detection (AFCEA)
  • Bharat Biotech says working on two possible Zika vaccines (Reuters)
  • A Md. biotech firm claims it can track Zika virus by testing mosquitoes (WP)
  • Drugmaker Sanofi Pasteur launches effort for Zika vaccine (Seattle Times)
  • Luminex reports fourth quarter and full year 2015 results (Luminex)
  • Takeda assembles team to evaluate Zika vaccine possibilities (Bloomberg)
  • Co-Diagnostics prepares Zika virus diagnostics proposal (PRWeb)
  • Pfizer, J&J, Merck evaluating technologies for Zika vaccine (Reuters)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

  • What else makes DARPA tick (Science)
  • Getting the word out on your research (The Scientist)
  • Planning for a disease outbreak? There’s a game for that (Medical Design Technology)
  • Companies make the antibodies, but it’s up to you to make sure they work (The Scientist)
  • The innovative suitcase lab that could fight the Zika virus (Nextgov)
  • Antibody Alternatives: Nucleic acid aptamers and protein scaffolds (The Scientist)

RADIOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR THREATS

  • The chilling truth about polonium poisoning (The Guardian)
  • Nuclear, chemical agents could be slipping through Canadian ports (Chem.info)
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