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Biodefense Headlines – April 10, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
April 10, 2016
Pandemic Flu, Ebola and Zika News Update

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including federal lab safety oversight, battling Zika, medical countermeasure innovations, and prion disease research.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • New website tracks oversight fixes for labs working with bioterror germs (USA Today)
  • Our approach to financing epidemic response is broken (Bifurcated Needle)
  • Federal perspective on the state of our nation’s biodefense (U.S. Senate)
  • White House will dip into Ebola funding to fight Zika, possibly ending impasse (STAT)
  • Federal Select Agent Program: Progress towards change (CDC)
  • U.S. needs incentives, leader to battle Zika, biological weapons (Indy Star)
  • White House finds temporary fix in Zika funding fight (Reuters)
  • Uninfected or asymptomatic? Diagnostic tests key to forecasting epidemics (BBSRC)
  • Emergency Use Authorization of medical products and related authorities (Federal Register)
  • Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns (Guardian)
  • S.2055 – Medical Countermeasure Innovation Act of 2016 (Congress.gov)
  • A “bird’s eye view” of the Zika Action Plan Summit (Bifurcated Needle)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Particulate delivery systems for vaccination against bioterrorism agents (WILEY)
  • Liberia and Guinea step up coordination to stem new cases of Ebola (WHO)
  • Yellow fever outbreak triggers vaccine alarm (Science)
  • Evaluating the epidemic trend and effects of intervention of Ebola virus disease (PLOS)
  • Plotting the course of Ebola vaccines (CIDRAP)
  • Lassa fever in Sweden – case update (WHO)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Bipartisan bill advances antibiotic development for seriously ill patients (PEW)
  • Volunteers who say ‘bite me’ are helping to win the war vs. mosquitoes (NPR)
  • CHMP issues positive opinion of AZ’s pandemic influenza vaccine (EU Biopharm Review)

CHEMICAL THREATS

  • Navy, Coast Guard test their nerves (MyGuidon)
  • ISIS carries out chemical weapon attack on Syrian army (Newsweek)
  • Syria war: IS ‘used mustard gas’ on Assad troops (BBC News)

RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

  • How worried should we be about ‘nuclear terrorism’? (Carnegie Endowment)
  • Threat of terrorists acquiring nuclear materials is still serious (War on the Rocks)
  • Measurement of Fukushima-related radioactive contamination (PNAS)
  • What is a dirty bomb and how dangerous is it? (The Conversation)
  • Could there be a terrorist Fukushima? (NY Times)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Zika is coming to the U.S. (NY Times)
  • Travel alert for Angola upgraded as yellow fever outbreak grows (CIDRAP)
  • In a remote Ugandan lab, encounters with Zika decades ago (NY Times)
  • Zika – which U.S. military hubs are most at risk? (Military Times)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Endemic zoonotic disease transmission in African urban setting (PLOS Pathogens)
  • New assay offers improved detection of deadly prion diseases (MDT)
  • Particulate vaccine systems may help protect against bioterror threats (MNT)
  • Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research (The Lancet)
  • Noviplex device will diagnose and track Zika in the Amazon (MDT)

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