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Biodefense Headlines – August 7, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
August 7, 2016
Health Security & Biosecurity News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including missing yellow fever vaccines, improved biosafety suits, dengue diagnostics in the U.S. military and more…

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • WHO bungles response to Africa’s yellow fever outbreak (STAT)
  • The unintentional exotic-pet bio-attack on US shores (BOTAS)
  • Biosurveillance threats and the opportunity to develop a safer world (JoB&B)
  • The ISIS files and Belgium: Food industry implications (Food Safety Mag)
  • AgConnect exercise evaluates decision support in animal health (IIAD)
  • CDC announces $16 million for states’ Zika efforts (CIDRAP)

POLICY & POLICTICS

  • If Zika spreads in the US, blame the politicians, not the mosquitoes (Quartz)
  • NIH, BARDA to spend through Zika funding by end of the month (BioWorld)
  • Why the world needs an essential diagnostics list (Forbes)
  • Interview with NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci (Charlie Rose)
  • An ugly summer for science: Turmoil rocks Canadian research community (STAT)
  • PharmAthene: Gov giving Emergent unfair advantage in anthrax contracting (WBJ)
  • NIH considering restarting funding for human-animal chimera research (STAT)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Ecological contexts of index cases and spillover events of different ebolaviruses (PLOS)
  • Recombinant botulinum neurotoxin derivative engineered for improved safety (Nature)
  • Ebola took a toll on maternal health (Time)
  • Anthrax outbreak in Russia kills boy, 12, and hospitalizes others (NY Times)
  • Podcast: I had to turn people away from the world’s largest Ebola centre (MSF)
  • Botulinum toxin may travel further than expected in nerve cells (Neuroscience News)
  • A visit to Liberia to see modified Ebola protective suit in action (JHU)
  • Anthrax outbreak thought to be result of thawing permafrost (NPR)
  • Safe travels for Zika and other dangerous samples (CDC)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Amid worst yellow fever outbreak in decades, 1 million vaccines go missing (LA Times)
  • ‘Striking’ results from early Zika vaccine trial (NBC News)
  • High prices make once-neglected ‘orphan’ drugs a booming business (WaPo)
  • Experimental vaccine could provide rapid response to diseases (Reuters)
  • 5 intriguing places scientists are hunting for antibiotics (Chem.info)
  • Zika vaccines show early promise (BBC News)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • It’s official: Zika is a sexually transmitted infection (NatGeo)
  • Zika hits the U.S. military: 41 troops, 7 family members diagnosed (Military Times)
  • Impact of a possible equine and human epidemic of West Nile Virus (Eurosurveillance)
  • Latest MCR-1 findings include highly resistant isolate (CIDRAP)
  • Assessing the Dengue diagnosis capability gap in the military health system (PubMed)
  • Zika: Prevent mosquito bites and practice safe sex (HuffPost)
  • The badger-cow TB connection (The Scientist)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Microbial engineering technique could reduce contamination in biofermentation plants (MIT)
  • University of Pittsburgh licenses microneedle patch to Pittsburgh company (MDT)
  • Identifying CBRN agents to stop disease in its tracks (HDIAC)
  • Johns Hopkins tweaks Ebola suit to improve comfort and safety (Baltimore Sun)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Study: 1918 pandemic flu survivors led average-length lives (CIDRAP)
  • In Zika, echoes of U.S. rubella outbreak of 1964-65 (HSNW)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Biodefense in gaming: enjoyable but inaccurate (Pandora Report)
  • The 27 best health and science books to read this summer (STAT)
  • Ubisoft’s open-world bio-terror shooter will be heading to the big screen (Wired)
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