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Biodefense Headlines – April 24, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
April 24, 2016
Pandemic Biosecurity News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including neurotoxin research, gene-editing risks and rewards, and pandemic preparedness.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • The public and the gene-editing revolution (NEJM)
  • Lack of evidence supporting the effectiveness of disaster supply kits (AJPH)
  • Share research to fight Zika and prepare for the next pandemic (Herald Net)
  • How open science can help solve Zika and prepare us for the next pandemic (WP)
  • Cuts to public health could hamper Zika preparation, response (USA Today)
  • WHO and the refugee crisis in Jordan and beyond (The Lancet)
  • Smallpox investigations, pandemic response funding, genomics data (Pandora Report)
  • Infectious outbreaks must be combatted strategically: Experts (HSNW)
  • Pakistan polio: Seven killed in anti-vaccination attack (BBC)
  • Q&A with Iowa’s environmental laboratory director (APHL)

SELECT AGENTS

  • What anthrax has taught us about public health preparedness (Vital Record)
  • Ebola PHEIC is over but emergency continues (The Lancet)
  • Cellular protection of SNAP-25 against botulinum neurotoxin A (JACS)
  • Therapeutic post-infection options for Ebola virus treatment set to broaden (Nature)
  • Experimental Treatment of Ebola Virus Disease with TKM-130803 (PLOS Medicine)
  • Trial suggests potential for sequential use of 2 Ebola vaccines (CIDRAP)
  • Ebola resurgences suggest the virus can linger longer than expected (Quartz)
  • List of Agent Orange-related diseases may expand (Military Times)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Angola yellow fever outbreak exposes vaccine supply dilemma (Reuters)
  • Billboards in Brazil rigged to lure and kill Zika-carrying mosquitoes (STAT)
  • HHS funds final work on Basilea Pharmaceutica antibiotic (Bloomberg)
  • Supermoms against superbugs: Meet the movement (PEW)
  • China’s vaccine scandal threatens public faith in immunizations (NY Times)
  • Polio eradication: ‘We have never been this close’ (STAT)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Mysterious outbreak: 5 things to know about Elizabethkingia (Yahoo)
  • Human beings – and our offices – are crawling with microbes (The Conversation)
  • EU publishes interim guidance on maritime transport and Zika virus (Eurosurveillance)
  • Zika and Ebola, explained by their outbreak potential (Vox)
  • Global emergence of enterovirus D68: a systematic review (The Lancet)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Tick–host–pathogen interactions: Conflict and cooperation (PLOS Pathogens)
  • Lab-on-a-drone: Pinpoint deployment of nucleic acid-based diagnostics (ACS)
  • Scientists unveil the ‘most clever CRISPR gadget’ so far (STAT)
  • Exposure to routine viruses makes mice better test subjects (WUSTL)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America (Contagions Blog)
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