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Biodefense Headlines – October 2, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
October 2, 2016
Zika, Ebola and Pandemic News from Global Biodefense

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including global disease outbreak tracking, CBRN incident management, and perspectives on biosecurity in the Middle East and Africa.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Opportunities to finance pandemic preparedness (The Lancet)
  • Preparing for (another) biological attack (Phys.org)
  • Getting serious on global health security (Center for Global Development)
  • GUMC launches Center for Global Health Science and Security (Reuters)
  • Biosecurity and biosafety: Perspectives from the Middle East and Africa (CRDF)
  • Illegal trade in wild-animal meat could cause next global pandemic (Quartz)
  • Awareness can control zoonotic diseases (Financial Express)
  • UB exercise to test biosafety preparedness (UB Now)

POLICY & POLITICS

  • CDC whistleblower claims agency has been using wrong Zika test (WaPo)
  • Reading the rules of gene regulation with CRISPR (Phys.org)
  • Dispute within CDC over Zika testing (The Scientist)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Securing anthrax – the risk of incomplete inactivation (GAO Watch Blog)
  • Analysis identifies lethal strain of anthrax the Soviets produced as bioweapon (STAT)
  • How the anthrax toxin forms a deadly ‘conveyer belt’ (Science Daily)
  • Searching for Ebola’s hideout (Mosaic)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • A guide to the changing science of flu shots (STAT)
  • Considerations for developing a Zika virus vaccine (NEJM)
  • K-State University contributes to potential Zika virus vaccine development (K-State)
  • How a garbage fire could lead to new antibiotics (The Atlantic)
  • Why a Zika vaccine is a long way off (The Conversation)
  • Zika vaccine enters clinical trials (JAMA)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • The first documented case of Zika spread by physical contact (The Atlantic)
  • How Los Alamos is learning to track disease outbreaks around the world (MIT)
  • 10 people die from monkeypox disease in the Central African Republic (Africa News)
  • AgConnect Emergency Exercise showcases system’s value (HPJ)
  • AMR poses significant health risks, challenges to clinical care (Healio)
  • Dynamic forecasting of Zika epidemics using Google Trends (BioRxiv)

CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

  • Chemical weapon wasn’t used near U.S. troops in Iraq (USA Today)
  • Psychosocial Aspects of CBRN Incident Management (PLOS Currents Disasters)
  • Islamic State ‘dead set’ on using chemical weapons (VOA)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Vela Diagnostics gets emergency U.S. authorization for Zika test (Reuters)
  • 12 DHS opportunities worth more than $100 million (Bloomberg)
  • Bringing big data to bear on infectious disease (GCN)

HISTORICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Smallpox in 1721 may have changed the course of American History (Biominute)
  • A Bacillus anthracis genome sequence from Sverdlovsk 1979 autopsy specimens (mBio)
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