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Biodefense Headlines – October 16, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
October 16, 2016
Health Security Headlines for Influenza and Malaria

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic vaccine planning, minimizing Q fever outbreaks, and assessing scalability and supply chain challenges for rapid diagnostics.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • FBI: We need to collaborate with industry on bioterrorism, WMD (Forensic Mag)
  • Global Civil Society Coalition for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWPP)
  • Pandemic vaccine planning: Pharmacy and public health collaboration (ASTHO)
  • On CDC’s 70th anniversary, Director Tom Frieden looks ahead (JAMA)
  • CGHE takes part in Georgetown’s pandemic influenza tabletop exercise (CGHE)
  • Better preparing for future Ebola outbreaks globally (ASPR Blog)
  • Biosurveillance Resource Directory (BRD)

POLICY & POLITICS

  • National health security strategy: Strategic messaging guide (NACCHO)
  • Teaching scientists, policy makers how to control the rise of bioterrorism (GMU)
  • Best practices for limiting access to your lab (Lab Manager)
  • MIT-USAID releases supply chain evaluation of malaria diagnostics (MIT News)
  • After 40 years, most important weapon against mosquitoes may be failing (Science)
  • A path to global health security (DipNote)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Amid crisis, Ebola drug narrowly missed threshold to prove effectiveness (STAT)
  • A randomized, controlled trial of ZMapp for Ebola virus infection (NEJM)
  • Killing reindeer to stop anthrax could snuff out a nomadic culture (NPR)
  • How Nigeria won the fight against Ebola (Relief Web)
  • Detection of Y. pestis in environmental samples in plague remediation (EPA)
  • The evolution of Ebola virus: Insights from the 2013–2016 epidemic (Nature)
  • We may have just lost our best hope against Ebola (Vice)
  • Blue dye could help keep Ebola doctors safe (Engadget)
  • Research to minimize Q fever outbreaks (Vet Practice)
  • A new lead on treatment for Ebola (NEIDL)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • The $5.8 billion argument for getting your flu shot (WaPo)
  • DoD will conduct flu immunization program without FluMist (Health.mil)
  • FDA approves Flublok quadrivalent influenza vaccine (Protein Sciences)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Who is immune to Zika? (The Scientist)
  • Niger Rift Valley Fever outbreak could spread across borders (Reuters)
  • Improving influenza virological surveillance in Europe (Eurosurveillance)
  • Sick birds don’t fly…or do they? (Science)

CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

  • U.S. pushing for international action to destroy Syria’s chlorine stocks (Chicago Tribune)
  • Working to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists (NTI)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Innovation: Taking the neglect out of neglected disease (Gates Foundation)
  • Deploying drones to fight Zika, future disease outbreaks (Miami Herald)
  • Epstein – Barr virus in patients presenting with acute febrile illness (PLOS)
  • Writing the first human genome by 2026 is synthetic biology’s grand challenge (SH)
  • Assessing pathogens for natural versus laboratory origins (BioRxiv)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS & SPECIAL INTEREST

  • When poison was everywhere (The Atlantic)
  • Long-forgotten research unearths new mystery about Lyme disease (STAT)
  • Pathogenesis: Where players are bacterial pathogens (Kickstarter)
  • Private SNAFU learns about Malaria (Contagion Blog)
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