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    Biodefense Headlines – September 18, 2016

    By Global Biodefense StaffSeptember 18, 2016
    Biothreat and Biosecurity News
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    See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including emerging foodborne pathogens, Zika rapid response team deployment, and medical countermeasures for high-dose radiation exposures.

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • Putting shots in the locker: How to anticipate epidemics (The Economist)
    • Are we unprepared for another Ebola outbreak? (Forbes)
    • Emerging foodborne risks – How and why pathogens emerge (PEW)
    • Ebola and Zika cautionary tales, forecasting disease hot spots (Pandora Report)
    • CDC deploys new rapid response teams to fight Zika (USA Today)
    • Uncertainty and the Zika virus: Why scientists need to think like poets (WBUR)
    • #NatlPrep: Biodefense & pandemic preparedness (Avian Flu Blog)
    • Emerging infectious diseases and the DoD (HDIAC)

    POLICY & POLITICS

    • Plum Island: Home to high-security lab and source of rumors (NY Times)
    • The hunt to find the lawmaker blocking the Zika funding bill (Wired)
    • How non-scientists can spot the hype in coverage on public health emergencies (Bioethics.gov)
    • The emerging life sciences and the national security state (Strategic Studies)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Anthrax-like Bacillus cereus strain eyed for Select Agent bioterror list (CIDRAP)
    • Using Blue Waters supercomputer to better understand Ebola transmission (HPC Wire)
    • J&J to start testing vaccine for Ebola strains, Marburg virus (STAT)
    • Ebola virus lingers longer than scientists thought (Nature)
    • Anthrax emergency: How to crush doxycycline (CDC)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • Could a Zika vaccine break the vaccine stalemate? (Slate)
    • The next generation of antibiotics could be bacteriophages (Labiotech.eu)
    • Millions at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance (The Guardian)
    • Could ancient remedies hold the answer to the looming antibiotics crisis? (NY Times Mag)
    • Benefits and risks of the Sanofi-Pasteur dengue vaccine (Science)
    • Myeloid cytokines for acute exposure to radiation (REMM)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • Rapid risk assessment on Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Spain (ECDC)
    • MERS-CoV: Infectious diseases epidemic threats and mass gatherings (BioMed)
    • Pregnant women anxious as Florida’s Zika test results take weeks (NY Times)
    • Guidelines for Zika vector surveillance and insecticide resistance testing (CDC)
    • Travelers warned of fatal tick-borne disease in Western Europe (New Scientist)
    • Guillain-Barré passive surveillance system (CDC)
    • 9 hit by Legionnaires in Hopkins outbreak (Star Tribune)
    • The Zika case that has experts stumped (Time)

    CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

    • Prototype for adult and pediatric medical orders during a radiation incident (REMM)
    • Medical management of internal contamination in radiological mass casualty (PubMed)
    • Chemical weapons watchdog continues hunt for Syria’s elusive nerve agent (FP)
    • As ISIS closed in, a race to remove chemical-weapon precursors in Libya (WaPo)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • Expert opinion on whole genome sequencing for public health surveillance (ECDC)
    • Seattle scientists first to show monkey model of Zika damage (Seattle Times)
    • Computational method identifies existing drugs with virus-fighting potential (ETHealth)
    • How virtual reality could help stop the next Ebola outbreak (Nextgov)
    • The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists (Vox)
    • ‘No room for doubt’: New science proves Zika causes microcephaly (WaPo)
    • Toggling CRISPR activity with a chemical switch (The Scientist)
    • Mapping the emergence of synthetic biology (PLOS One)

    HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

    • Biological Threats in the 21st Century book launch (Pandora Report)
    • 100 objects that shaped public health in cities (City Lab)
    • World’s 1st plague pandemic bacteria gets new genetic analysis (Live Science)
    • Yellow fever timeline: The history of a long misunderstood disease (NPR)
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