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Biodefense Headlines – August 28, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
August 28, 2016
Ebola and Biopreparedness News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including an anthrax outbreak simulation, Ebola virus disease small molecule countermeasures, and bioterrorism threats to the water supply.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • UN Chief warns world not prepared to deal with biological attack (VOA)
  • New era of synthetic biology could make dangers of atomic age seem quaint (Foreign Policy)
  • Yellow fever vaccination campaign a dress rehearsal for the next big disease outbreak (STAT)
  • Bioterrorism may pose threat to water supplies (WQP)
  • Zika is just the first front in the 21st-century biowar (Foreign Policy)
  • Dugway Proving Ground blows something up in the name of science (Salt Lake Tribune)

POLICY & POLICTICS

  • All donated blood in U.S. will be tested for Zika (NY Times)
  • Clinton proposes new fund to fight Zika, boost bioterrorism preparedness (Military Times)
  • UN Security Council – calls for eradicating WMD’s (Pandora Report)
  • City Council meeting discusses proposed BSL-4 research moratorium at BU (MySouthend.com)
  • Asked and answered: a letter to a mother concerned about the Zika virus (White House)
  • Bioterrorism: An interview with Lawrence Roberge, PhD (Outbreak News)
  • Integration of molecular typing in surveillance and epidemic preparedness (ECDC)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Attacking Ebola’s Achilles’ heel (Elsevier)
  • Simulation exercise: Anthrax in Australia (OIE)
  • Rescue of non-human primates from advanced Sudan ebolavirus (Nature)
  • Tribute: The man who led the war to kill smallpox (NPR)
  • New small molecule compounds could treat Ebola virus infection (Science Daily)
  • Ebola: Outbreak info sources and impact on student populations (PLOS)
  • Study suggests favipiravir benefits for Ebola patients (CIDRAP)
  • Approval of anthrax vaccine under FDA’s animal rule is a step forward (RAPS)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • HHS moves to accelerate Zika vaccine development (JAMA)
  • Rotavirus infections ‘greatly reduced’ since vaccine (BBC)
  • SAB Biotherapeutics wins contract to develop MERS candidate (GEN)
  • Quality over quantity: making the case for vaccines (The Hill)
  • Shades of grey in vaccination decision making (Science Comm)
  • Regeneron, BARDA partner to develop MERS virus treatment (FierceBiotech)
  • This new vaccine could tackle both Zika and Dengue at once (LabBioTech.eu)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Virus hunters search for the next deadly disease outbreak (CNN)
  • Guess how many Zika cases showed up at the Olympics? (NPR)
  • Seven more fairgoers ill with variant H3N2 (CIDRAP)
  • ESKAPES: Emerging pathogens of concern (InfectionContral.tips)
  • FDA seeks US-wide Zika blood screening; sexual transmission concerns grow (CIDRAP)
  • Mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis active this summer (NC DHHS)
  • Fighting yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (The Guardian)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Syrian regime and Isis carried out chemical attacks, say UN investigators (The Guardian)
  • Pentagon taps Lululemon for chem-warfare suit challenge (DefenseNews)
  • Proof Challenge: Designing America’s chemical biological defense suit (Tandem NSI)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Resistant paper developed thanks to nanotech (Digital Journal)
  • Real-time biological target detection in operational environments by dogs (HDIAC)
  • The Department of Defense needs help designing a biohazard suit (Engadget)
  • Air Force to conduct chemical, biological decontamination tests on F-35 (ExecGov)
  • Newly discovered virus has multi-part genome (The Scientist)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • The Red Queen & pneumococcus (Tracking Zebra)
  • Yellow fever timeline: the history of a long misunderstood disease (NPR)
  • The Strain season 3 review (We Got This Covered)

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