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    Biodefense Headlines – October 30, 2016

    By Global Biodefense StaffOctober 30, 2016
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    See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic simulations, Canada’s anthrax vaccine stockpile, animal feed biosecurity, and CRISPR’s promise for better animal models.

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • Assessing the epidemic potential of RNA and DNA viruses (EID)
    • Pandemic simulations: Preparing for catastrophes we hope will never happen (WB)
    • Strategic National Stockpile emergency medication and equipment (EM)
    • FDA updates its food emergencies response (Food Engineering)
    • GlaxoSmithKline CEO discusses disease outbreak preparedness (NY Times)
    • Opportunities to finance pandemic preparedness (The Lancet)

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • Future of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (Council of Councils)
    • World Health Organization Grade 3 and Grade 2 funding gap emergencies (WHO)
    • Using gene-editing patents to force scientists to open their labs to scrutiny (MIT)
    • The ethics of hunting down ‘patient zero’ (NY Times)
    • Blueprint for a Healthier America 2016: Priorities for the next administration (TFHA)
    • Hospitals add sinks to help fight infections – bad move (Pandora Report)
    • How much did your state get in health services block grants? (TFHA)
    • Feed biosecurity is critical to global animal health (Pork Network)
    • CBRNe advice for the new US President (CBRNe World)
    • Zika virus research agenda (WHO)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Gene-editing might eradicate disease — or be Pandora’s box in a bottle (STAT)
    • Risk of severe adverse events from replicating smallpox vaccine (Wiley)
    • Diagnostics in Ebola Virus Disease in resource-rich vs. limited settings (PLOS)
    • Helminths as weapons of bioterrorism: An unrecognized threat (JoB&B)
    • Canada orders anthrax vaccine – but who will get access to it? (Montreal Gazette)
    • Texas hospital reaches settlement with nurse infected with Ebola (Reuters)
    • Hitting Ebola, to the power of two (Science)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • Terrorists hamper polio eradication efforts in Africa (NatGeo)
    • MRSA uses decoys to evade a last-resort antibiotic (BBSRC)
    • Sanofi partners with Brazil to accelerate Zika vaccine work (Reuters)
    • A water-chilled coolbox gets vaccines on tap to the world’s poorest (The Guardian)
    • How polio vaccination affects poliovirus transmission (BioRxiv)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium vivax in Pakistan: An emerging threat (The Lancet)
    • Centre forms high-level panel to monitor bird flu situation (The Hindu)
    • Scientists are bewildered by Zika’s path across Latin America (WaPo)
    • Public health concern as superbug breaches Australia’s final drug defence (MedExpress)
    • The changing landscape of tracking infectious diseases (Contagion Live)
    • Cholera in Haiti: No respite from unintended consequences (Tracking Zebra)
    • Mosquitoes — and diseases like Zika — flourish when economies tank (STAT)
    • Preventing Zika exposure in healthcare settings (CDC)
    • Texas and its measles epidemics (PLOS)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • Fatal measles complication more common than thought: U.S. study (Reuters)
    • Leveraging CRISPR to create better disease models (WSJ)
    • Blue marble health and the global burden of disease study (PLOS)
    • Study: Dangerous bacteria can end up on nurses’ scrubs (CIDRAP)
    • IBM World Community Grid Project to accelerate Zika virus drug discovery (PLOS)
    • Los Alamos disease-fighting technology showing promise (ABQ Journal)
    • First-time reconstruction of infectious bat influenza viruses (Science Daily)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • Google Doodle honors science’s first microbiologist (STAT)
    • Check out these resources on biodefense before seeing Inferno (HSDL)
    • The 2016-2017 National Health Security Awards Program (NACCHO)
    • Halloween quiz: how much do you know about global disease costumes? (NPR)
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