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Biodefense Headlines – August 21, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
August 21, 2016
Biodefense - Bioterrorism News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including Ebola response lessons learned, conflicting studies on FluMist, and anthrax in Siberia.

POLICY & POLICTICS

  • UN makes first public admission of blame for Haiti cholera outbreak (The Guardian)
  • The fight against Zika can’t wait for a vaccine (Harvard Business Review)
  • Event: Lessons from Ebola and Zika: How to prevent the next pandemic (Harvard)
  • Worried Florida Republicans push Ryan for Zika action (Politico)
  • CDC, HHS proposed rule on control of communicable diseases (Federal Register)
  • ASTMH Presidents urge Congress to take action on Zika (ASTMH)
  • Legal interventions to address the Zika threat – webinar (Pitt.edu)
  • U.N. admits role in cholera epidemic in Haiti (NY Times)
  • Keeping biological research safe (The Hill)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Ebola. Zika. Could a rapid-response fund help the US address crises faster? (STAT)
  • Lessons learned in developing an effective regional Ebola CONOPS (ASPR)
  • Upton leads oversight efforts of CDC bioterrorism response capabilities (Ripon Advance)
  • Commentary: Failing on Zika (CSIS)

SELECT AGENTS

  • D.A. Henderson, ‘disease detective’ who eradicated smallpox, dies at 87 (Chicago Tribune)
  • Chemical warfare troops fight anthrax outbreak in Siberia (The Times)
  • Anthrax outbreak in Siberia as a harbinger of the unfreezing of pathogens (Disease Daily)
  • Next steps for Ebola vaccine: Deployment in non-epidemic, high-risk settings (PLOS NTD)
  • Slow diagnosis, malaria limited response to 2015 Zambia plague outbreak (Healio)
  • Bacillus anthracis sequence from the Sverdlovsk 1979 autopsy specimens (bioRxiv)
  • British Ebola nurse ‘concealed temperature’ on return from Sierra Leone (Reuters)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Study says FluMist vaccine does indeed work, contradicting CDC (NPR)
  • A roadmap for MERS-CoV research and product development (WHO)
  • Navy researchers develop therapeutic cocktail of environmental phages (Armed with Science)
  • Why the Pentagon is paying nearly $2 million for a custom-designed bacteria (CNBC)
  • A field trip fit only for an infectious disease nerd: a flu vaccine plant (Tracking Zebra)
  • Influenza vaccine for international mass gatherings (The Lancet)
  • Hutterite flu vaccine trial:  More questions on optimal flu vaccines (UPMC)
  • Choosing not to vaccinate has real-world consequences (CIDR)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Polio reemerges in Nigeria (The Scientist)
  • Outbreak of yellow fever in DR Congo could go global (Reuters)
  • Zika, Miami and innovative alternatives to pesticides (Forbes)
  • The case for leaving city rats alone (Nautilus)
  • Zika now spreading in Miami Beach, sources say (Miami Herald)
  • Assessing dengue diagnosis capability gap in the military health system (PubMed)
  • From anthrax to Zika – we’ve got you covered (Pandora Report)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • How the Islamic State seized a chemical weapons stockpile (Foreign Policy)
  • We need facts about the use of chemical weapons in Syria (The Guardian)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • ‘Radically rewritten’ bacterial genome unveiled (Nature)
  • New enzyme-mapping advance could help drug development (MIT News)
  • The mystery of Zika’s path to the placenta (The Atlantic)
  • Researchers discover new way to attack Staphylococcus aureus (Sci News)
  • Drones transport microbiological samples without altering their content (mBiosphere)
  • Method simplifies blood biomarker discovery and analysis (MDT)
  • Streamlining the E.coli genetic code (The Scientist)
  • VA says it has world’s top genomic database (HealthData)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Genetic analysis yields new clues in 1979 Soviet anthrax accident (CIDRAP)
  • Why get a liberal education? it is the life and breath of medicine (US News)
  • Make this amazing plague doctor’s mask (Makezine)
  • How to stop a zombie apocalypse – with science (The Conversation)

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