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Biodefense Headlines – September 4, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
September 4, 2016
Health Security Headlines from Global Biodefense

Health Security Headlines from Global BiodefenseSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including synthetic biology security risks, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Spain, and the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Small changes, big dividends: A global look at preparedness (CDC Public Matters)
  • New group established to overcome epidemic vaccine barriers (CIDRAP)
  • Biopreparedness in the age of genetically engineered pathogens (AMSUS)
  • Bioterrorism expert responds to foiled Kenya anthrax attack (Outbreak News)
  • Thinking about the unthinkable (AEI)

POLICY & POLICTICS

  • Toward the 8th BWC Review Conference (Center for Nonproliferation Studies)
  • Zika response must not drain research funds (Nature)
  • FDA bans common ingredients in antibacterial soaps and body washes (WaPo)
  • Commentary: To fight Zika, deploy the National Guard (Chicago Tribune)
  • Scott’s criticisms of CDC don’t hold weight with public health officials (Politico)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Soviet anthrax mishap could have been worse (Laboratory Equipment)
  • Spain reports its first 2 cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CIDRAP)
  • The Ebola clinical trials: a precedent for research ethics in disasters (JoME)
  • A “bottom up” treatment for Ebola that could have been used in W. Africa (Contagion Live)
  • Ebola cluster traced to sexual transmission 15 months after man’s illness (CIDRAP)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • More doctors asked about delaying or refusing childhood vaccines (Seattle Times)
  • Caution on new dengue vaccine: In some countries, harm outweighs benefit (STAT)
  • Japanese company to accelerate development of a Zika vaccine (HHS)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Vertical transmission of Zika: Of epidemiologic significance? (UPMC CBN)
  • U.S. FDA issues emergency use authorization for Zika test: Roche (Reuters)
  • Superbug resistant to two last-resort antibiotics found in US for first time (STAT)
  • No Zika cases among Olympics attendees (The Scientist)
  • Devastating viruses disappeared in wild birds (JAVMA)
  • Zika virus gets foothold in Singapore, raising fears of epidemics in Asia (STAT)
  • “Not out of the woods yet” in yellow fever outbreak in Angola, Congo (Reuters)
  • Newest superbug has been in U.S. longer than thought (NatGeo)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • Destroying those chemical weapons out in Colorado (Anniston Star)
  • US set to destroy big chemical weapon stockpile (Blue Ridge Now)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Call for papers: Emerging pathogens and health security (UPMC CHS)
  • Nano-biophotonics for molecular imaging (NIST)
  • Killing germs with electron beams (MDT)
  • SEED 2016: Synbio industry coming of age (PLOS SynBio)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • A study of human history through the lives of disease-causing bacteria (The Wire)
  • The Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies (Contagions Blog)
  • What a hidden graveyard from the Roman Empire can teach us about plague (STAT)
  • Antimalarial: The history of the gin and tonic (Slate)
  • A horrifying comic-book future where antibiotics don’t work any more (io9)
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