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    Biodefense Headlines – October 2, 2016

    By Global Biodefense StaffOctober 2, 2016
    Zika, Ebola and Pandemic News from Global Biodefense
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    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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