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Biodefense Headlines – May 30, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
May 30, 2016
Global Biodefense Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including influenza surveillance programs, inadequate health emergency preparedness funding, and high containment ambulances.

BIODEFENSE POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Resilient health systems can prevent and contain pandemics (USAID)
  • Local health departments reflect on the impacts of PHEP funding cuts (NACCHO)
  • Secret vote on WHO bodes ill for future of global health (Humanosphere)
  • The world can’t find more than $4 million for the WHO to fight Zika (Quartz)
  • Biodefense Panel welcomes key provision in defense authorization bill (HSNW)
  • NSW Australia Health Influenza Pandemic Plan (NSW Ministry of Health)
  • Blunt assessment on global failure to prepare for infectious disease (STAT)
  • G7, we can prevent pandemics (Huff Post)
  • Winnike recognized for work on emergency health preparedness law (UH)
  • Disease detectives protect children in Pakistan (CDC)
  • Zoonotic spillover, biothreats preparedness, antibiotic apocalypse (Pandora Report)
  • Meeting report: Global outbreak research preparedness and response (ISARIC)
  • Global influenza surveillance program shows promising results (Contagion Live)
  • Committee explores bill to improve readiness, response to biothreats (Ripon Advance)
  • OSHA’s Michaels backs disease surveillance program (OH&S)
  • WHO: Pandemic preparations don’t go far enough (Fierce Healthcare)
  • Japan plays leading role in global public health issues (Japan Times)
  • New global partnership for preparedness launched (FAO UN)
  • Preparing the WHO for the next outbreak (WSJ) sub
  • WHO’s fairy dust financing (Foreign Policy)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Ground squirrels south of Boise test positive for plague (KTVB)
  • Plague warnings posted throughout popular hiking trail in Flagstaff (CBS5AZ)
  • Whole genome sequence typing as an epidemiologic tool for Y. pestis (DMID)
  • SERS detection of ricin b-chain via N-acetyl-galactosamine glycopolymers (ACS Sensors)
  • Biosecurity center working on new anthrax vaccine (QC Online)
  • Chicago Fire Department unveils Ebola ambulance (JEMS)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Gavi welcomes price trend for pentavalent vaccine (Gavi)
  • New incentives needed to develop antibiotics to fight superbugs (Reuters)
  • Superbugs for dummies: Explaining the battle between bacteria and antibiotics (STAT)
  • Diffusion of pharmacy-based influenza vaccination over time in U.S. (AJPH)
  • Lariam should be drug of last resort for troops, MPs say (BBC)
  • Cash prizes for pharma are needed to fight superbugs (STAT)
  • Improving safety of first-in-human clinical trials (EMA)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Mobile phone data highlights role of mass gatherings in spreading outbreaks (PNAS)
  • Yellow fever: the resurgence of a forgotten disease (The Lancet)
  • Zika’s getting all of the attention. It shouldn’t. (Slate)
  • Dissecting the latest super bug (Tracking Zebra)
  • Yellow fever, Zika virus, and lessons we have to keep learning (Pump Handle)
  • To fight Zika, send in the National Guard (NOLA)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Nerve agent metabolite hair analysis for long-term exposure verification (AC)
  • China top general visits Japan WWII chemical weapons site (ABC News)
  • DARPA’s new method for demilitarizing chemical weapons (iHLS)
  • Fire burns several buildings at former Umatilla Chemical Depot (Oregon Live)
  • Missouri WWII vet’s mustard gas claim again denied (Stars & Stripes)
  • Dstl hosts 19th Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference (Gov.UK)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Pathogen uses promiscuous molecule to scavenge metals (C&EN)
  • Metagenomics pathogen detection tool (Univ of Utah)
  • Anitoa demonstrates portable chemiluminescence sensor (Yahoo)
  • NIAID RFP: Pre-clinical models of infectious diseases (NIH Grants)
  • BARDA modeling-visualization hub solicitation (FBO.gov)
  • Improving physical infrastructure to enhance animal model research (NIH Grants)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Researcher maps the devastation of the Black Plague using broken pottery (Mental Floss)
  • The 1971 smallpox epidemic in Aralsk, Kazakhstan (Middlebury Institute)
  • List of 1918 flu pandemic case deaths and notable survivors (Wikipedia)
  • Research reveals more complete picture Black Death devastation (Smithsonian)
  • Art or bioterrorism? The implications of the Kurtz case (Middlebury Institute)
  • The Plague of Justinian (Wikipedia)

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