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Biodefense Headlines – May 1, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
May 1, 2016
Ebola Particles - Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including outbreak preparedness, gene editing risks to national security, and the yellow fever vaccine shortage.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • From bioterrorism to Zika, readiness lags For U.S. health emergencies (Forbes)
  • The path to eradication: a progress report on the malaria-eliminating countries (The Lancet)
  • Rewiring outbreak preparedness and response (Contagion Live)
  • How genetic editing became a national security threat (BOTAS)
  • Top health official says this is what Americans should be most worried about (BI)
  • Yellow fever’s comeback was utterly avoidable, but we blew it (Wired)
  • PPE for preventing highly infectious diseases (Reflections on IPC)
  • From bioterrorism to Zika, readiness lags for U.S. (Forbes)
  • 30 years mitigating the consequences of the Chernobyl accident (IAEA)
  • White House steps up call for action on Zika funds (CIDRAP)
  • Daschle and Klain: We’re not ready for next Zika virus (USA Today)
  • Preparedness and public awareness to guard against radiological terrorism (The Wire)
  • For the first time in a decade, the WHO goes looking for a new leader (STAT)
  • Raising awareness about rare disease (Thomson Reuters)
  • OIE celebrates World Veterinary Day 2016 (IIAD)
  • High-containment labs (GAO Watchblog)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Ebola leaves a painful legacy for survivors in Sierra Leone (The Guardian)
  • White powder mailed to Trump’s campaign office deemed no threat (NY Times)
  • Immune responses to alternate booster schedules of anthrax vaccine (CVI)
  • BARDA talks medical countermeasure manufacturing (Outsourcing Pharma)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Kansas State University researchers take aim at deadly swine diseases (Seek) .pdf
  • Innate defense regulators as an agnostic therapy (Journal of Biotechnology)
  • Status of vaccine research and development for Staphylococcus aureus (Vaccine)
  • Your contribution to antimicrobial resistance (AJP)
  • Identification of preferred human kinase inhibitors for sleeping sickness (ACS)
  • Atovaquone-Proguanil remains potential stopgap for resistant P. falciparum (AAC)
  • A path to better antibiotic stewardship in inpatient settings (PEW)
  • First widely available Zika test OK’d for emergency use (Seattle Times)
  • Factbox: Can malaria be eliminated by 2030? (Reuters)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Quest Diagnostics says its Zika virus test gets U.S. approval (Reuters)
  • New Zika diagnostic Emergency Use Authorization (FDA)
  • U.S. doctors prepare for arrival of Zika virus (NPR)
  • Yellow fever epidemic in Angola poses a global threat (VICE News)
  • Norovirus gives 699 million people diarrhea every year. No one talks about it. (Vox)
  • Q&A with Hawaii’s state laboratory director (APHL Lab Log)
  • WHO issues yellow fever warning as deadly outbreak grows (Reuters)
  • Zika-infected monkeys in Brazil (The Scientist)
  • Update on Zika virus transmission in Puerto Rico (CDC)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Assessing analytical performance criteria for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (SD)
  • 4 ways dogs might be able to sniff out disease (STAT)
  • Meet the nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution (The Conversation)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • How Europe exported the Black Death (Science)

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