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Biodefense Headlines – March 20, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
March 20, 2016
Biodefense Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic preparedness funding, Ebola vaccine trials, and the CRISPR patent battle.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Congress should allocate money to fight Zika (NY Times)
  • US public health preparedness for Zika and other threats remains vulnerable (DMPHP)
  • Confronting the pandemic threat (Democracy Journal)
  • Preparing for emergencies: A legal perspective (CDC)
  • Virological Hiroshima, lessons from Ebola and Zika, Master’s Open House (Pandora Report)
  • Study finds donor funds fall short for key global health functions (UCSF)
  • Sanofi science chief says it’s time to ‘think big’ about global epidemics like Zika (STAT)
  • The risks and rewards of genome editing resonate beyond the clinic (Nature)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Protective monotherapy against Ebola by a potently neutralizing antibody (Science)
  • Lassa fever death rates in Nigeria higher than expected (CNN)
  • Next generation antibiotics could protect against bioterrorism (Lab Equipment)
  • New Ebola cases in Guinea as WHO warns of more possible flare ups (WHO)
  • The need-to-know guide to botulism, for safe canning and preserving (Food52)
  • Trials of a new vaccine for Ebola to take place at Guinea medical center (PR Newswire)
  • Review of risk factors for transmission of Ebola or Marburg virus disease (IJE)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Over half of measles cases in U.S. are unvaccinated — often intentionally (Forbes)
  • U.S. made dengue vaccine 100 percent effective in small study (Reuters)
  • Infectious disease holding units installed at four border posts in Ghana (IOM)
  • Anti-vax parents on trial for death of child treated with herbal remedy for meningitis (WaPo)
  • Experts call for clinical trials rethink (Univ of Edinburgh)
  • Quantifying the impact of the unvaccinated (Clinicians’ Biosecurity News)
  • Pew, Others Urge Increased Funding to Combat Superbugs (PEW)
  • Toward high-reliability vaccination efforts in the United States (JAMA)

CHEMICAL THREATS

  • Almost 1,500 killed in chemical weapons attacks in Syria (The Guardian)
  • Were you exposed to burn pits while deployed? (VA)
  • Crowd control with chemical agents: Fundamental questions raised (The Trench)
  • Course on chemical warfare agents, toxic chemical incidents held in Lima (OPCW)
  • Anhydrous ammonia and land use planning (CFSN)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • The Zika pandemic – A perfect storm? (PLOS NTD)
  • Q&A with Scott Halstead: Zika will subside in ‘5 years, max’ (Science)
  • Predicting Zika’s potential path (The Scientist)
  • Rise in scarlet fever cases shows 49-year high, health experts say (BBC)
  • South Korea resumes poultry exports to Hong Kong (Reuters)
  • WHO emergency vector control group meets in Geneva (CIDRAP)
  • Once and future epidemics: Zika virus emerging (Science)
  • American food safety: Who’s watching the chickens? (Politico)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • The unfolding of polio (NY Times)
  • The plagues that might have brought down the Roman Empire (The Atlantic)

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