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Biodefense Headlines – April 17, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
April 17, 2016
Biosecurity and Biodefense News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including emerging public health threats, gene-editing oversight, polio vaccine switch, and the avian flu threat.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Protecting the U.S. from emerging public health threats (FDA)
  • University leaders must take responsibility for lab safety, report says (C&EN)
  • CRISPR: Transformative and troubling (Council on Foreign Relations)
  • Zika response funding: In brief (Congressional Research Service)
  • Neglected dimensions of global security (JAMA)
  • Crisis sparks biosecurity assessment (Western Producer)
  • Gene-editing surges as US rethinks regulations (Nature)
  • China’s tougher vaccine rules “welcome”, complex to implement (Reuters)
  • State of nation’s biodefense, lab safety tracking, and all things Zika (Pandora Report)
  • Agriculture and public health challenges focus at IIAD Annual Meeting (IIAD)
  • Global health partnerships: Are they working? (Science Translational Medicine)
  • FDA guidance focuses on diagnostics measuring radiation exposure (RAPS)
  • On Zika, Congress is failing to do its job (NY Times)
  • The epidemiologist who gave CNN sass for asking a stupid question (NPR)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Ebola – hiding in eyeballs (Hippocratic Post)
  • Detecting botulinum neurotoxins in biological and environmental matrices (INTECH)
  • Genotype analysis of Bacillus anthracis strains circulating in Bangladesh (PLOS One)
  • Looking, hopefully, towards an Ebola-free future (WHO)
  • Study finds elk habitat overlaps with potential anthrax reservoir in Montana (EPI)
  • Developing countermeasures for bio-terror weapons (KVNO)
  • Ebola survivors medical research at crucial point (Front Page Africa)
  • Yellow fever outbreak kills 21 in Congo, WHO says (Reuters)
  • Why a yellow fever outbreak in Angola is a potential threat for the entire world (Vox)
  • Reversal of inhibition of IL-1β expression by anthrax lethal toxin (JCB)
  • Phylogeography of Francisella tularensis from Tibet, China: (Science Direct)
  • Improving treatments for post-Ebola syndrome sufferers (Science Daily)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Antimicrobial drug pipelines presented at ECCMID (MNT)
  • WHO group backs Sanofi’s vaccine in areas with high dengue rates (Reuters)
  • Malaria resistance ‘unable to spread’ (BBC)
  • New polio vaccine rolled out in massive synchronized worldwide switch (NPR)
  • Parasites resistant to the atovaquone fail to transmit by mosquitoes (Science)
  • Latest battle to wipe out polio begins with vast vaccine switch (Reuters)
  • Mosquitoes are spreading Zika. Your neighbors aren’t helping (STAT)

CHEMICAL THREATS

  • Scientists have created hollow molecules to trap toxic gases such as sarin (SA)
  • New UN proposal aims at extremists use of chemical weapons (ABC News)
  • WW2 nerve gas fears for Snowdonia hydro project (BBC)
  • The human cost of dioxin, PCBs and pollution at Kadena Air Base (Japan Times)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • The looming threat of avian flu (NY Times)
  • Zika virus confirmed as cause of microcephaly birth defect, CDC says (The Guardian)
  • Assessing the potential risk of Zika epidemics in temperate areas (Eurosurveillance)
  • Expert raises alarm over deadly tuberculosis outbreak in PNG (ABC Australia)
  • Search and one will find: Zika virus everywhere (TRSTMH)
  • Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings (Science)
  • Identification of vector-borne pathogens in dogs and cats from Brazil (Science Direct)
  • Can preparations stop another outbreak? (Pilot Tribune)
  • Health officials says that Rabbit Fever is back (Albany Daily Star)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Coded apertures improve, shrink mass spectrometers for field use (HSNW)
  • Scientists learn to detect Zika virus using nuclear-derived technique (IAEA)
  • Innovative partnership brings to market new tools for neglected tropical diseases (PATH)
  • Increased use of diagnostic test poses challenge to tracking of foodborne illness (CDC)
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