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Biodefense Headlines – July 10, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 10, 2016
Bioweapons and Biodefense News Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including emerging technologies as potential bioweapons, anthrax biosafety lapses and disciplinary actions, and the Zika funding standoff.

POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Find the time to discuss new bioweapons (Nature)
  • Why Congress’ Zika impasse could awaken Ebola menace (Politico)
  • The disease slush fund (Pandora Report)
  • Zika is the ‘most difficult’ emergency health response ever (The Atlantic)
  • IFRC appeals for funding to help stop yellow fever outbreak in Angola (IFRC)
  • Zika preparedness for state and local health departments (CDC)
  • House panel set to endorse 1.3B increase for the NIH (STAT)
  • Case studies: National biosafety systems (UPMC CHS)
  • Influenza outbreak would cost U.S. billions of dollars in losses (HSNW)
  • Panel slams plan for human research rules (Science)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Army metes out punishment in anthrax scandal (USA Today)
  • These scientists are racing to prevent the next Ebola (VICE)
  • Study launched of Gilead’s Ebola antiviral (C&EN)
  • First ever biosafety report details 199 mishaps with toxic agents (Reuters)
  • Ebola left a terrible legacy—and another outbreak is likely (The Atlantic)
  • CXCL10 as a bifunctional antimicrobial molecule against Bacillus anthracis (mBio)
  • A double-risk monitoring and movement restriction policy for Ebola (Science Direct)
  • Addressing infection prevention and control in first U.S. Hospital to treat EVD (AIM)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • New approach to severe bacterial infections and sepsis (Harvard Gazette)
  • Yellow fever: A vaccine-preventable infectious disease emergency (UPMC CHS)
  • Killer fungus destroys Zika mosquitoes from the inside out (Newsweek)
  • Scientists discover new threat to antibiotic of last resort (STAT)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Arizona is site of largest current US measles outbreak (WaPo)
  • Swine fever kills 600 pigs, outbreak alleged to come from Namibia (SABC News)
  • Canada detects low pathogenic type of bird flu on duck farm (CNBC)
  • MERS virus in South Korean hospital from one ‘super-spreader’ patient (Med Xpress)
  • An open letter to Olympic athletes about Zika (STAT)
  • 88 more yellow fever cases in Angola bring total past 3,500 (CIDRAP)
  • Zika-infected person with underlying conditions dies in Utah (Slate)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Rapid test identifies disease pathogens (Fraunhofer Institute)
  • NIH awards 55M to build million-person precision medicine study (NIH)
  • Instrument-free point-of-care molecular detection of Zika virus (AC)
  • A method to detect Zika-blocking bacteria (The Scientist)
  • Maryland bioscience industry leader in NIH funding, venture capital (FNP)
  • From slow viruses to prions (PLOS Pathogens)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • How budget cuts helped resurrect an 18th-century ailment (The Atlantic)
  • Did an intel source base Iraq WMD information on a Nicolas Cage movie? (BI)

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