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Biodefense Headlines – September 25, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
September 25, 2016
Biodefense and Health Security Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including emerging infectious disease modeling, biosafety incidents at containment laboratories, and Zika vaccine development.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Antibiotic resistant bacteria and the world’s peril (Scientific American)
  • How we’ll tackle diseases that are becoming untreatable (NatGeo)
  • The danger of not keeping up with technological advances (DomPrep)
  • Risk assessment models for emerging infectious disease in Asia-Pacific (PLOS)
  • NEIDL Symposium: Talking about infectious diseases (BU Today)
  • Indonesia welcomes ‘One Health’ concept (Jakarta Post)
  • The importance of unlikely allies in pandemic response (Devex)
  • PAHO creates new health emergencies program (Relief Web)

POLICY & POLITICS

  • A fighter for global health: Who will be next to lead the WHO? (Reuters)
  • South Korea: Lawmakers seeking ban on imports of select agents from U.S. (Hankyoreh)
  • Bioresearch labs and inactivation of dangerous pathogens hearing (Pandora Report)
  • Zika’s making some people sick. It’s making other people crazy (Daily Beast)
  • CBO Estimate for Amendment 5082 Zika Response and Preparedness Act (CBO)
  • The Pentagon has become a one-stop shop to solve global problems (The Economist)
  • Live-pathogen blunders more common than reported (Stars & Stripes)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Progress towards the development of a NEAT protein vaccine for anthrax (ASM)
  • Zika virus in semen: lessons from Ebola (The Lancet)
  • In Uganda, Fort Detrick researchers seek key to Ebola virus (Frederick News Post)
  • Addition of Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis to the HHS select agents list (FR)
  • Plague toxin treats common autoimmune disease (Labroots)
  • Ebola is not gone, it’s hiding (ACSH)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Another DNA vaccine for Zika shows promise (The Scientist)
  • A group of drug companies just laid out a plan to combat superbugs (Business Insider)
  • Cincinnati firm plays key role in battle against Zika virus (Biz Journals)
  • Why superbugs are beating big pharma (Bloomberg)
  • Zydus and Takeda partner to tackle chikungunya (Pharma Letter)
  • DoD seasonal influenza vaccination training (Vaccines.mil)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Rift Valley Fever outbreak kills 21 in western Niger (Reuters)
  • MERS-CoV case update for Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia (WHO)
  • A mysterious polio-like illness that paralyzes people may be surging this year (WaPo)
  • Polio cases in Nigeria are bad news for eradication effort (Pump Handle)
  • Livestock-associated MRSA: A foodborne illness? (UPMC CBN)
  • Gonorrhea is more dangerous than ever as resistance to antibiotics grows (WaPo)
  • Multiple dengue strains plague Pakistan (SciDevNet)

CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

  • Assessing the risk from Africa as Libya loses its chemical weapons (The Conversation)
  • Islamic State’s chemical attack on U.S. troops shouldn’t be a surprise (War is Boring)
  • No, ISIS isn’t gassing US troops in Iraq (Vox)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • 3 bold bets on the future of biotechnology (Motley Fool)
  • ‘Isolation Pod’ transport system arrives at Saint Mary’s (My News 4)
  • How a free mobile app fights Ebola and other global epidemics (OpenSource)
  • Scientists uncover a clever ranking strategy bacteria use to fight off viruses (Phys.org)
  • China’s five-star pig pens are latest weapon in the superbug war (Bloomberg)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • A Review of Amy Maxmen’s Ebola’s Unpaid Heroes (Tracking Zebra)
  • The Great Plague of London, 1665 (Harvard Contagion Collection)
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