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)