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Biodefense Headlines – September 11, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
September 11, 2016
Biopreparedness News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including 9/11 anniversary reflections, the ongoing Zika funding standoff, and aerial surveillance of biothreats.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • USC terrorism research expert looks at 9/11 and what the future may hold (USC)
  • For first responders, 9/11 struck close to home (US News)
  • Glaxo proposes biopreparedness unit for outbreaks like Zika (Bloomberg)
  • Marion County Health Department conducts bio-terrorism drill (WJBD)
  • Infectious disease transmission—it’s who you know and where you go (MedXpress)
  • Singapore: Program to detect infectious diseases (NewsAsia)
  • Quantitative comparison of quarantine and symptom monitoring (bioRxiv)
  • Army goes aerial in search for bio-chem threats (Army Times)

POLICY & POLITICS

  • Congress’ cynical Zika game threatens all Americans (CNN)
  • Will Congress (belatedly) do the right thing on Zika? (Pump Handle)
  • Zika outbreak: US Congress blocks Zika funding bill (BBC)
  • Superbug explosion triggers U.N. General Assembly meeting (Scientific American)
  • Nigeria outbreak forces rethink of polio strategies (Science)
  • A gendered human rights analysis of Ebola and Zika (Wiley)
  • Setting a safe course for gene editing research (Nanowerk)

SELECT AGENTS

  • The story of ‘the Canadian vaccine’ that beat back Ebola (National Post)
  • Should you worry about Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Spain? (Forbes)
  • Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis causing anthrax in Sub-Saharan Africa (PLOS NTD)
  • Humanized monoclonal antibody passively protects mice against ricin (ASM)
  • Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained Ebola epidemic (bioRxiv)
  • BioCryst sees positive test results for Ebola treatment (NCBC)
  • MDA reduces malaria incidence during Ebola outbreak (Healio)
  • Q fever outbreak puts Australia on high alert (Global Meat News)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • To avoid antibiotic apocalypse, we need to diagnose infections faster (The Conversation)
  • The dilemma in funding Zika and other pandemic therapies (Pharma Processing)
  • Are vaccines getting to where they need to go? (Forbes)
  • Antibiotics: Will the bugs always win? (C&EN)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • ‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll (Reuters)
  • Bioterrorism expert responds to foiled Kenya anthrax attack (ONT)
  • Airborne flu detection at bird markets hints at human exposure risk (CIDRAP)
  • FDA’s war on antibacterial soap, Ebola viral genomes (Pandora Report)
  • Swine flu doesn’t just pass from pigs to people – it goes both ways (The Conversation)
  • Zika’s Persistence in the eye may play a role in spreading Zika virus (WaPo)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • 7 killed as scene of alleged Aleppo chlorine attack targeted again (CNN)
  • Libya chemical weapons: ‘Last ingredients’ set for destruction (BBC)
  • Syria conflict: Government helicopters ‘drop chlorine’ on Aleppo (BBC)
  • Army begins destroying chemical weapons in Colorado (ABC)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Zika is boon to device makers as FDA recommends blood screening (C&EN)
  • New gene technology could wipe out entire species — to save others (WaPo)
  • New chem-bio protective ensemble in the works (NDIA)
  • This Phase I could pioneer needle-free vaccines (Labiotech.eu)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • DNA confirms cause of 1665 London’s Great Plague (BBC)
  • Q&A: Spillover dynamics of common viruses with bat reservoirs (Reddit)
  • Plague in 6th century Aschheim and Altenerding, Bavaria (Contagions Blog)
  • A pilgrim, a saracen, and a biothreat: A review of I Am Pilgrim (Tracking Zebra)
  • When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (NPR)
  • Traveling abroad with biosecurity internship (Hampden-Sydney)

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