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Biodefense Headlines – October 23, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
October 23, 2016
Biohazards and Biodefense News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including containing panic during epidemics, protecting the nation against agroterrorism, and flu vaccine impact on hospitalization rates.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • We need to do a better at protecting agriculture against bioterrorism (US News)
  • How Ebola teaches us to defend against the smallest deadly weapons (SB)
  • Call for measures for the National Health Security Preparedness Index (NHSPI)
  • How can health officials help contain the panic over outbreaks? (Medical Xpress)
  • Khorezm Regional Diagnostic Laboratory opened in Urgench (Uz Daily)
  • Eradicating disease to preserve the future (FG Insight)
  • Biology as a weapon (Defense Procurement)
  • When outbreaks go viral (New Republic)

POLICY & POLITICS

  • Desperately seeking leadership: Joanne Liu on WHO’s next director (GHN)
  • Feds to fund plans to take on Zika virus with drones (NBC)
  • Zika and Ebola had a much worse effect on women (Conversation)
  • If billionaires fund your research, don’t take public money (Wired)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Emergency facilities a vital key to Ebola survival (UQ News)
  • On patrol with America’s top bioterror cop (MIT Tech Review)
  • Ebola leaves survivors with debilitating reminders like blindness, epilepsy (DN)
  • Modeling the effects of health care practices on Ebola epidemic behavior (FH)
  • Man gets potentially deadly bacterial disease (CBS News 6)
  • New Ebola vaccine under consideration for emergency use (SciDevNet)
  • Helping Sierra Leone fight Ebola (DTRA)
  • How open source helped beat Ebola (CISCO)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Reduction in hospitalizations despite influenza vaccine mismatch (UPMC CHS)
  • New antibiotic mined from human gut reverses drug resistance (ARS Technica)
  • UNICEF reaches deal on low-cost 5-strain vaccine for children (CIDRAP)
  • Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies as biodefense medical countermeasures (OMICS)
  • Tasmanian devil milk fights superbugs (BBC)
  • Hurdles ahead for Zika vaccine: Experts (Health Day)
  • Combatting antibiotic resistance (HSNW)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Cholera in Haiti isn’t just bad news—it’s not going away (Wired)
  • Will winter kill Zika? (The Atlantic)

CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL THREATS

  • New chem-bio protective ensemble in the works (National Defense)
  • Attack on Kirkuk and chemical fire push troops back from Mosul (Guardian)
  • U.S. expects Islamic State to wield chemical weapons in Mosul fight (Reuters)
  • Inquiry blames Syrian military for another chlorine gas attack (NY Times)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • SynBioBeta SF 2016: What have we learned from Silicon Valley? (PLOS)
  • Overlooked molecules could revolutionize understanding of immune system (Imperial)
  • Study shows little evidence of poultry-worker infection early in H7N9 (CIDRAP)
  • Gene deletion points way to flu treatment (Science Daily)
  • Epidemiology and surveillance of influenza in Uganda 2008-2014 (PubMed)
  • Gene drives: The good, the bad, and the hype (BOTAS)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Some singers sing about love. He sings about … hand-washing (NPR)
  • Biological Threats in the 21st Century book launch (Pandora Report)
  • Synthetic Biology: Safety, Security, and Promise (UPMC CHS)
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