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Biodefense Headlines – October 9, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
October 9, 2016
GBD Biodefense Headlines

GBD Biodefense HeadlinesSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic influenza preparedness, addressing the risks of gene editing, and investing in next-generation sequencing platforms.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Virus hunters tracking down the next pandemic (Horizon)
  • CLSA Report: How we prepare for the next pandemic (CLSA)
  • Infectious disease outbreaks: The latest, not the last (TFAH)
  • WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework (Thomson Reuters)
  • Feedback on Healthcare Preparedness Program performance measures (NACCHO)
  • The world wakes up to the danger of superbugs (NY Times)

POLICY & POLITICS

  • With new program, DARPA to encourage safety “brakes” for gene editing (Xconomy)
  • Despite new Zika funds, states might not get any for months (WaPo)
  • Public health labs hope federal funds will speed Zika test results (NPR)
  • Florida’s feud over Zika-fighting GMO mosquitoes (Bloomberg)
  • Pig laws set for post-virus epidemic shake-up (Global Meat News)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Serosurveillance of viral pathogens circulating in West Africa (Virology Journal)
  • Scottish nurse tests negative for Ebola after readmission to hospital (Reuters)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Zika vaccine race spurred by crisis and profit potential (Reuters)
  • A quarter of millennials avoid the flu vaccine because of the cost (Bloomberg)
  • ‘One-punch’ universal flu vaccine in development (Medical News Today)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Why scientists are keeping an eye on a little-known Mayaro virus (NPR)
  • No one knows how many are dying from superbug infections in CA hospitals (LA Times)
  • As Hurricane Matthew moves on, the worst is yet to come for Haiti (Forbes)
  • Measles elimination — using outbreaks to identify and close immunity gaps (NEJM)
  • Venezuela doctors sound alarm on reported return of diphtheria (Reuters)
  • Zika and the association with the Guillain–Barré syndrome (NEJM)
  • Venezuela doctors sound alarm on reported return of diphtheria (Reuters)
  • The benign course of postnatal Zika infection (UPMC CBN)

CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

  • Sudan has been accused of using chemical weapons against civilians (Time)
  • When neuroscience leads to neuroweapons (BOTAS)
  • HHS enhances nation’s health preparedness for radiological threats (HHS)
  • Forgotten lessons: The return of mustard gas (HuffPost)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Automating sample testing in space (Phys.org)
  • Alphabet’s latest project is birth control for mosquitoes (MIT)
  • HHS embarks on $52M genetic sequencing platform development (Healthcare IT)
  • Dramatic twists could upend patent battle over CRISPR (Science)
  • Real-time sharing of Zika genomes—the race against a virus (Medical Xpress)
  • Cows engineered with human genes could stop our next disease outbreak (MIT)
  • The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research (Brookings)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • A lieutenant in eradicating smallpox remembers the general (NY Times)
  • Rift Valley fever: still an emerging infection after 3500 years (The Lancet)

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