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Biodefense Headlines – July 3, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 3, 2016
Biological Defense Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including high containment lab incidents, battling antibiotic resistance, and the future of Plum Island.

POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Federal report discloses incidents in high-containment labs (CIDRAP)
  • CDC failed to disclose lab incidents with bioterror pathogens to Congress (USA Today)
  • Government warehouse prepped for health catastrophes (NPR)
  • Battling antibiotic resistance, Brexit and public health, and yellow fever (PR)
  • The Supreme Court decision that’s shaking up biotech (STAT)
  • Americans were more worried about Ebola than they are about Zika (WaPo)
  • Roots, not parachutes: research collaborations combat outbreaks (Cell)
  • Porton Down – inside Britain’s secret weapons research facility (BBC News)
  • DHS has no future need for Plum Island, should be sold or transferred (Riverhead)
  • UK scientists in limbo after Brexit shock (Nature)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Annual Report of the Federal Select Agent Program (CDC, USDA)
  • Quick, early test for Ebola could prevent epidemics (Princeton University)
  • First-of-its-kind CDC study finds clues about why only some survive Ebola (WaPo)
  • USAMRIID researchers make breakthrough with anthrax vaccine (Frederick News Post)
  • Plague: A scourge from ancient to modern times (Live Science)
  • Safeguarding deadly pathogens and poisons (CDC)
  • Plague Exposure Found in San Jacinto Mountains Squirrels (NBC Los Angeles)
  • What it’s like to have an Ebola scare (The Atlantic)
  • Ibuprofen ‘disables’ Ebola virus (BBC News)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • Zika vaccine ‘works very well’ in mice (BBC News)
  • There’s big money again in saving humanity with antibiotics (Bloomberg)
  • Inside a monkey lab, research gets fast-tracked in the ‘Zika room’ (STAT)
  • Vaccines protect mice against Zika infection (The Scientist)
  • Why are there so many reports of autism following vaccination? (Logic of Science)
  • Zika animal studies yield new disease clues, optimism for vaccine (CIDRAP)
  • World’s first malaria vaccine delays — doesn’t prevent — infection (STAT)
  • Limited protection of GSK’s malaria vaccine dwindles in 7 years (Reuters)
  • Composite endpoints in clinical trials (The Scientists)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • ‘The Aleppo evil’ is making a comeback (NPR)
  • Sex may spread Zika virus more often than researchers suspected (NY Times)
  • MCR-1 detected in Salmonella in Portugal, E coli in Brazil (CIDRAP)
  • Traditional and syndromic surveillance of infectious diseases and pathogens (IJID)
  • Europe’s coming plagues: vector-borne neglected tropical diseases (PLOS NTD)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Wireless, wearable toxic-gas detector (MIT News)
  • Breakthrough device can diagnose malaria in 5 seconds flat (Yahoo Tech)
  • RT-PCR using FRET technology for Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis (P&V)
  • Spirometrix lands 17M for breath-based diagnostic device (Mass Device)
  • Luminex Corporation Completes Acquisition of Nanosphere (Luminex)
  • DIY micro-Raman: Flexible and cheap (Spectroscopy Now)
  • Flavivirus infection requires specific host genes (NIH Research Matters)
  • Characterization of the microbial communities on Boston transport (Molecular Ecologist)
  • Are science papers becoming too complex? (STAT)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Dr. Jonas Salk and the continuing battle against polio (NY Times)
  • Monica Green and Boris Schmid on plague phylogeny (Contagions Blog)
  • The centenary of the discovery of trench fever (The Lancet)
  • Vaxxed: The film that no one saw (ACSH)

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