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Biodefense Headlines – March 13, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
March 13, 2016
Health Security Headlines from Global Biodefense

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including gain-of-function research, emergency Zika response, and chemical facility airstrikes.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Six policy options for conducting gain-of-function research (CIDRAP)
  • Partnerships, not parachutists, for Zika research (NEJM)
  • DTRA program helps nations tackle biological threats (DoD News)
  • Obama’s emergency request for Zika funding stalls in Congress (STAT)
  • Biolabs investigation wins national journalism prize (USA Today)
  • Smallpox battleground, biowarfare allegations, GOF research (Pandora Report)
  • The new normal: Zika virus and other unusual suspects (CBRNe Portal)
  • Liberia shutters Red Cross amid inquest into Ebola spending (Reuters)
  • States worry they don’t have money to fight Zika (WaPo)
  • Real superheroes wear lab coats (USDA)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Perspectives on West Africa Ebola Virus Disease outbreak, 2013–2016 (EID)
  • Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys (NIH)
  • Emory University admitting patient with suspected Lassa fever (Emory)
  • Lassa fever rages on in Nigeria (Disease Daily)
  • US Ebola Treatment Center clinical laboratory support (JCM)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • BioCryst’s Zika drug shows promise in mice (Reuters)
  • Resistance-proof antibiotics may never exist – but there are promising alternatives (Conv)
  • A biotech evangelist seeks a Zika dividend (NY Times)
  • FDA says engineered anti-Zika mosquito environmentally safe (Reuters)

CHEMICAL THREATS

  • ISIS launches two chemical attacks in northern Iraq (The Guardian)
  • Chemical safety and security in a technologically evolving world (OPCW)
  • Why ISIL’s chemical weapons are causing the west to panic (Georgetown)
  • ISIS detainee’s information led to 2 chemical facility airstrikes (NY Times)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Zika and birth defects (The Scientist)
  • Mosquito spraying may not stop Zika, other methods needed (Reuters)
  • China and France report ongoing high-path avian flu outbreaks (CIDRAP)
  • Zika-carrying mosquitoes developing resistance to top insecticide (STAT)
  • Studies cite possible Zika-meningitis link, note virus in saliva (CIDRAP)

RADIOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR THREATS

  • Israeli placental cell therapy could cure radiation sickness (Reuters)
  • Is Fukushima’s exclusion zone doing more harm than radiation? (BBC)
  • Fukushima keeps fighting radioactive tide 5 years after disaster (NY Times)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

  • Current Zika product pipeline (WHO) .pdf
  • PCR offers new way to find antibodies and diagnose disease (C&EN)

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