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Biodefense Headlines – June 6, 201

by Global Biodefense Staff
June 6, 2016
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See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including gain-of-function research guidelines, synthesizing the human genome, and critical health security funding gaps.

POLICY, PRACTICES & PREPAREDNESS

  • The edge of the antibiotic abyss (Contagion)
  • WHO emergency panel to meet in June on Zika and Olympics (Reuters)
  • Newly disclosed CDC biolab failures ‘like a screenplay for a disaster movie’ (USA Today)
  • To stop the next pandemic, let’s focus on the boring diseases (Pacific Standard)
  • NSABB finalizes GOF guidance; White House to weigh in (CIDRAP)
  • It’s here! The 2016 National Preparedness Report (HSDL)
  • Hustling dollars for public health (NY Times)
  • Plan to synthesize human genome triggers mixed response (Nature)
  • Gates Foundation on preparing for pandemics (NY Times)
  • Africa starts its own disease control agency (CDC)
  • Does the Olympics in Rio put the world in danger of Zika? (NPR)
  • Back to the future of global health security (CFR)
  • State, local public health lose critical funding because Congress fails to act (PH)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Recommendations for dealing with waste contaminated with Ebola virus (WHO)
  • Ethics in clinical management and response to the W. Africa Ebola epidemic (Dovepress)
  • Maintaining maternal and child health during the Ebola outbreak (PLOS Outbreaks)
  • Vaccination programs during pandemics spread via respiratory droplets (Eurosurveillance)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Development of small animal models for Zika virus vaccine testing (AJTMH)
  • US survey shows gaps in understanding of antibiotic resistance (CIDRAP)
  • The power of vaccinating pregnant women (BBC News)
  • How do frontline scientists respond to the threat of mosquito-borne viruses? (UQ)
  • Pakistan’s quiet revolution against polio (Foreign Policy)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • While you were watching Zika, Chikungunya came to Texas (STAT)
  • Mysterious hemorrhagic fever outbreak stumps disease detectives (NPR)
  • WHO: Array of Zika birth defects equals new syndrome (CIDRAP)
  • Defining the syndrome associated with congenital Zika virus infection (WHO)
  • Should Zika really stop you going to the Rio Olympics? Here are the facts (Conversation)
  • Yellow fever persists in Angola, DRC; suspected cases probed elsewhere (CIDRAP)
  • Niger confirms bird flu outbreak in poultry (Reuters)
  • Scoping review of the Zika virus literature (PLOS One)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Assad may be using sarin gas – and the world is staying on the sidelines (Conversation)
  • Training customs officials for detection of scheduled chemicals (OPCW)
  • 2016 Emergency Response Manual (HazMat Magazine)
  • Islamic State ‘stockpiling’ chemical weapons (Reuters)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • New CRISPR system for targeting RNA (MIT News)
  • Scientists find form of CRISPR gene editing with new capabilities (NY Times)
  • ExThera seeks to commercialize technology to remove pathogens from blood (MDT)
  • Nanosponge decoy fights superbug infections and poisons (Science 360)
  • Scientists launch proposal to create synthetic human genome (The Guardian)
  • CE-IVD Mark granted for ARIES Flu A/B & RSV assay (Luminex)
  • Why does anyone go to the BIO convention, anyway? (STAT)
  • Novel CRISPR system zeroes in on single-stranded RNA (The Scientist)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • See 18 gorgeous public health posters from the 1930s (Time)
  • The new arms race against bacteria (The Actuary)
  • Black-Death survey reveals incredible devastation wrought by Plague (Yahoo)
  • The rabies vaccine backstory (The Scientist)

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