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Biodefense Headlines – July 24, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 24, 2016
Biodefense and Bioterrorism News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic vaccination strategies, bioterrorism algorithms, and Zika vaccine development.

Contents

  • BIOPREPAREDNESS
  • POLICY & POLICTICS
  • SELECT AGENTS
  • MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES
  • OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE
  • CHEMICAL THREATS
  • INDUSTRY NEWS
  • HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS
  • SPECIAL INTEREST

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Next flu pandemic could double past cost estimates (Science Daily)
  • Half of Americans say threats from infectious diseases are growing (Pew Research)
  • Australia uses bioterrorism algorithm to predict flu outbreak (GovInsider)
  • Biopreparedness collaborative expanding capabilities in W. Africa (USAMRMC)
  • Jim Yong Kim: A plan to deal with the next pandemic (WaPo)
  • Managing infection control in a disaster (Infection Control)
  • War against killer diseases (BCCJ Acumen)
  • NAM’s concern at spread of Pandemic (New Delhi Times)
  • Emerging pandemic threats (USAID)

POLICY & POLICTICS

  • Congress takes a vacation without doing anything about Zika (NY Times)
  • Pathogens, prejudice, and politics in the European refugee crisis (The Lancet)
  • This is how the U.S. must lead the fight against Zika (WaPo)
  • Kansas OKs merger of Bioscience Authority with Commerce (LJ World)
  • The Zika crisis: How Congress abandoned its duty to govern (LA Times)
  • See you in September, funding fights (Politico)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Over 20 countries suitable for Ebola transmission by bats (Science Daily)
  • The art of persistence – the secrets to Burkholderia chronic infections (P&D)
  • Cutaneous anthrax on eyelid in a pregnant woman (EJOM)
  • Nitric oxide production contributes to Bacillus anthracis edema toxin (AJP Heart)
  • Rapid and sensitive multiplex detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei (PLOS)
  • Anthrax kills four animals in northeastern Bulgaria (Outbreak News)
  • Obiltoxaximab prevents disseminated Bacillus anthracis infection (ASM)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Prime-boost H5 vaccination strategy could help in pandemic (CIDRAP)
  • Three-drug combinations could help counter antibiotic resistance (UCLA)
  • An Army specialist helps create a possible Zika vaccine (Health.mil)
  • Scientists scour the globe for a drug to kill deadly brain-eating amoeba (STAT)
  • Fatal MERS in Najran as study pans convalescent plasma (CIDRAP)
  • DoD guidance for the 2016-2017 annual influenza immunization program (Vaccines.mil)
  • WHO ranks antibiotics for stewardship efforts (CIDRAP)
  • Democratic Republic of Congo launches yellow fever vaccination drive (Reuters)
  • ‘Winner Antibody’ holds promise as universal Influenza A vaccine (LaBioTech.eu)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Zika mystery widens as Utah caregiver contracts virus (Reuters)
  • Sentinel surveillance of blood borne virus testing in England: 2015 (Gov.UK)
  • NOIDs weekly report on infectious diseases (Gov.UK)
  • Second case of Zika in Florida may have come from local mosquitoes (STAT)
  • CRISPR concerns, the rise of HIV cases & foodborne illness galore (Pandora Report)
  • Zika epidemic may have peaked but will threaten U.S. for years (NPR)
  • PLoS One: Pathology of A/H10N7 in harbor seals (Avian Flu Diary)
  • Zika: An increasingly frustrating unknown unknown (Tracking Zebra)

CHEMICAL THREATS

  • UN authorizes offshore disposal of Libya’s chemical weapons (DW)
  • Boris Johnson calls for UN help with destroying Libya’s chemical weapons (CTV)
  • Man arrested after allegedly placing chemical weapon at Oxnard Wal-Mart (KTLA)
  • New method helps identify chemical warfare agents (HSNW)

INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Investor sues Emergent BioSolutions over demand for anthrax vaccine (WBJ)
  • Yisheng Biopharma announces positive results on Ebola vaccine (PR Newswire)
  • Israeli biopharma joins NIH to develop Ebola treatment (LaBioTech)
  • First CRISPR trial in humans is reported to start next month (STAT)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Legacy of pandemics: mutations that protect against infectious disease (PLoS)
  • The discovery of trench fever, an emerging disease of World War 1 (The Lancet)
  • Ceremony honors Revolutionary War soldiers who died of smallpox (MM)
  • Soviet biological weapons program and its legacy in today’s Russia (INSS)
  • Ancient parasite remains a modern scourge (SciDevNet)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Naples man writes bioterrorism thriller about fictional local hero (Naples Daily)
  • A review of Zika: The Emerging Epidemic by Donald McNeil (Tracking Zebra)

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