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Biodefense Headlines – Feb 28, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 28, 2016
Global Biodefense and Biosecurity News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including Zika diagnostics, CDC’s field epidemiology officers, and biosecurity in Iraq.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Improving the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Biodefense report (Just Security)
  • Food for thought: Efforts to defend the nation’s agriculture and food (HS Committee)
  • Zika virus: Why emergency funding is necessary, and why it shouldn’t be (The Hill)
  • Biosecurity in Iraq: Developing a national biorisk system (Frontiers in Public Health)
  • ‘Pandemic’ explains how to host the perfect pathogen party (NY Times)
  • The dangerous conspiracy theories about the Zika virus (New Yorker)
  • CDC’s Career Epidemiology Field Officers program (CDC)
  • AMP up your biosafety system (APHL)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Plague around the world, 2010–2015 (WHO) .pdf
  • Single Antibody Protects Macaques from Ebola (The Scientist)
  • Ebola ‘devastates long-term health’ (BBC)
  • Yersinia spp. as model bacteria for pathogen evolution (Nature)
  • Why an Ebola body collector will be watching the Oscars tonight (NPR)
  • British nurse who recovered from Ebola back in hospital (Reuters)
  • Glycosylation of BclA glycoprotein from B. anthracis exosporium (JBC)
  • Comparison of French and worldwide Bacillus anthracis strains (PLOS)
  • Identification of Novel Raft Marker Protein, FlotP in Bacillus anthracis (FIM)
  • Diagnostic strategies for Ebola virus detection (The Lancet)
  • Structural hot spots for the solubility of globular proteins (Nature)
  • Cautious optimism about ZMapp trial (The Scientist)
  • Zika and Ebola: A taste of things to come? (BBC)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • WHO advisers switch out 2 vaccine strains for 2016-17 flu season (CIDRAP)
  • Virus-mimicking drug boosts resistance to antibiotic-resistant bacteria (The Scientist)
  • WRAIR researchers publish results from P. vivax malaria vaccine study (News Medical)
  • ‘Seriously flawed’ study linking behavioral problems to Gardasil retracted (WaPo)
  • Synthetic biology’s first malaria drug meets market resistance (Nature)
  • The rats who sniff out tuberculosis (Guardian)
  • Measles: still a thing in the US in 2016 (Tracking Zebra)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • The link between Zika and climate change (The Atlantic)
  • Zika researchers release real-time data on viral infection study in monkeys (Nature)
  • CDC tells pregnant women not to travel to Olympics (STAT)
  • With CDC help, Puerto Rico aims to get ahead of Zika (NPR)
  • Zika virus outbreak: the need for novel mosquito control methods (The Lancet)
  • Zika virus microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome (WHO)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Luminex Collaboration with University of Sao Paulo to validate Zika panel (Luminex)
  • NIAID studies ofPLX-R18 for Acute Radiation Syndrome (Pluristem)
  • New antibody treatment for MERS-CoV (SAB Biotherapeutics)
  • Two Companies on the forefront of bio-detection technologies join forces (Smallcap)
  • Directors for biosecurity and public health preparedness (Healthcare Ready)
  • SAIC wins place on chem-bio defense support contract (UPI)
  • Illumina sues UK rival over patents (EU Biotech News)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

  • Infection-fighting biological bandages for serious burns (MDT)
  • Texas hospitals develop rapid Zika test (USA Today)
  • Exploring the potential of public proteomics data (Spectroscopy Now)
  • DNA under the scope, and a forensic tool under a cloud (NY Times)

EDUCATION

  • Biodefense Course Sampler scheduled for March 2 (GMU)

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