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Biodefense Headlines – June 19, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
June 19, 2016
Bioterrorism and Biodefense News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including plague vectors, next-generation antibiotics, and mapping zoonotic diseases.

POLICY & PRACTICES

  • The disease detective who speaks the truth about epidemics (Foreign Policy)
  • Cautionary tales on colistin, data & sleuthing for superbugs (NRDC)
  • WHO says 122 million dollars needed for global response to Zika virus (Reuters)
  • Zika virus: Risk of spread from Olympics ‘very low’ says WHO (BBC)
  • Republicans, who warned of dithering on Ebola, now hesitate on Zika (NY Times)
  • Pre-Zika public attitudes toward genetically modified mosquitoes (UPMC CBN)
  • Ebola nurse attorneys say hospital won’t reveal details of disease spread (DMN)
  • Why hasn’t disease wiped out the human race? (The Atlantic)
  • Promising gene therapies pose million-dollar conundrum (Nature)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Dogs as plague sentinels and vectors (Contagions Blog)
  • If you thought Ebola and Zika were scary…Just wait! (Pulse)
  • Attenuation of ricin toxin under ambient conditions and elevated temps (EPA)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Want to win $2 billion? Create the next antibiotic (WaPo)
  • India launches emergency vaccine drive for new polio strain (The Guardian)
  • Yellow fever in Angola and beyond — the problem of vaccine supply and demand (NEJM)
  • Strategies for improving vaccine delivery: a cluster-randomized trial (Pediatrics)
  • To control spread of yellow fever, panel approves WHO plan to ration vaccine (STAT)
  • Can you teach old drugs new tricks? (Nature)
  • Delinking investment in antibiotic R&D from sales revenues (PLOS)
  • The economics of antibiotic resistance (Pacific Standard)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Number of Zika-positive Puerto Ricans surprises health officials (NY Times)
  • Zika infection can damage fetuses even if pregnant women show no symptoms (STAT)
  • WHO expresses concern over disease outbreaks in its response to Fallujah crisis (WHO)
  • Carriers of rat-borne Lassa fever will double to 406,725 carriers by 2070 (Wired)
  • Digital participatory surveillance and the Zika crisis: opportunities and caveats (PLOS)
  • Mosquitoes may be helping an older killer reemerge (WaPo)
  • Spread of human disease from animals mapped (BBC)
  • Studies find ‘super bacteria’ in Rio’s Olympic venues, top beaches (Reuters)
  • Mapping zoonotic diseases (The Scientist)
  • As Zika threat grows in U.S., testing lags for a vulnerable group (NY Times)
  • ESKAPES: Emerging pathogens of concern (Infection Control Tips)
  • Outbreak of Lassa fever in Benin (WHO)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Researchers study combustion behavior of chemical weapons (Texas A&M)
  • First responders enhance knowledge of sampling in contaminated environments (OPCW)
  • Defective welds will cost weapons plant up to $20 million (Richmond Register)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Airborne pathogen monitoring system launched in US (FQN)
  • Predicting contagiousness to limit the spread of disease (DARPA)
  • FDA is supporting Zika diagnostic test development (FDA) .pdf
  • Hologic wins emergency U.S. authorization for Zika test (Reuters)
  • ‘Daisy-chain’ gene drive vanishes after only a few generations (New Scientist)
  • A CRISPR screen defines a processing pathway required by flaviviruses (Nature)

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