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Biodefense Headlines – July 17, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 17, 2016
Biodefense and Biosecurity News

Biodefense and Biosecurity NewsSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including digital pathogen detection, Ebola virus lingering in spinal fluid, and melioidosis outbreak drivers.

POLICY & PRACTICES

  • Zika funding bill fails as Congress is unable to reach compromise (Time)
  • Without immunization, Texas could see a return of the plagues (TribTalk)
  • Appropriations bill for Department of Health and Human Services (House.gov)
  • International security and foreign policy implications of disease outbreaks (DOS)
  • Improving decision support for infectious disease prevention and control (Rand)
  • Uncertain impact of critical biosecurity reports – Jan 2016 (DomPrep)
  • Brexit is a global health risk (Foreign Policy)
  • GOP backs new fund for public health (The Hill)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Agent X still a threat to Warfighters (DTRA)
  • Study: Ebola virus in spinal fluid may explain neurologic changes (CIDRAP)
  • Filovirus survivors exhibit cross-reactive and long-lived antibody responses (ASM)
  • This program may have stopped Ebola — but never had requested funding (VICE)
  • Community engagement in ethics and Ebola: public health planning (Bioethics.gov)
  • Identifying CBRN agents to stop disease in its tracks (HDIAC) .pdf
  • Integrating gender in the response to Ebola (AFDB)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE COUNTERMEASURES

  • To fight a virus, get a virus: military bets on mutant pathogen (Bloomberg)
  • Austrian biotech plans Zika vaccine clinical trials in 12 months (Reuters)
  • MSF denounces high price of vaccines for refugee children (MSF)
  • Fighting a hospital superbug reveals an unexpected benefit (NatGeo)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • CDC: Zika passed from woman to man via sex (CIDRAP)
  • Earliest known case of antibiotic-resistant superbug found in NY (STAT)
  • Zika – old enemy, new threat (IIT Magazine)
  • Risk of Zika importation from travel to the 2016 Olympics (CDC)
  • Suspected Congo yellow fever cases up 38 percent in last three weeks (Reuters)
  • Reports note melioidosis, mycobacteria outbreaks tied to healthcare (CIDRAP)
  • Superbug gene detected in a second person in the U.S. (WaPo)
  • Map: Here’s where Zika mosquitoes are likely found in California (KQED)
  • PRRS has claimed 3,613 pigs since April (Business Standard)

CHEMICAL THREATS

  • Researchers study combustion behavior of chemical weapons (Texas A&M)
  • West Virginia chemical spill: high throughput screening assays (Nat Toxicology)
  • Iran sought chemical and biological weapons in 2015, says German intel (Fox)
  • Redstone Arsenal turns 75. How it almost didn’t make 10 (AL.com)
  • UCF researcher studies chemical weapons in his lab (Orlando Sentinel)
  • New method uses nanoparticles to identify chemical warfare agents (NanoWerk)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Army researchers explore digital pathogen detection (ECN)
  • Dendrimer-RNA nanoparticles offer fast, customizable vaccines (C&EN)
  • CDC influenza mobile app for clinicians and health care professionals (CDC)
  • ASU professor works to screen for safe blood supply with new test (KJZZ)
  • Kate Rubins, a biologist-turned-astronaut (Wired)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Dancing Plague remains one of the unresolved mysteries of public health (MinnPost)
  • Pence once peddled conspiracy theories about anthrax and Saddam Hussein (LA Times)
  • History credits this man with discovering Ebola on his own. History is wrong (STAT)
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