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    Biodefense Headlines – November 6, 2016

    By Global Biodefense StaffNovember 6, 2016
    Health Security Headlines from Global Biodefense
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    See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the upcoming Biological Weapons Convention review conference, how a mutation improved Ebola’s ability to enter cells, and potency studies on expired Tamiflu.

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • It’s time to modernize the bioweapons convention (Bulletin Atomic)
    • Balancing science with security: Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (DipNote)
    • Keeping the Biological Weapons Convention relevant (Bulletin Atomic)
    • 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities (ASPR)
    • Open source monitoring to verify the bioweapons convention? (Bulletin Atomic)
    • Congress must address the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture (The Hill)

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • Bioweapons and scientific advances (Center for Security Studies)
    • Ebola was just the beginning. A big epidemic is coming we must be (Wired)
    • As earth warms, diseases within permafrost become a bigger worry (Salon)
    • Bioterrorism 2.0: Should we fear a human-designed super virus? (PC Mag)
    • Omaha facility to train doctors to battle deadly diseases (OWH)
    • UNMC to develop national training center to fight infectious diseases (UNMC)
    • Here’s what we could be doing to stop pandemics like Zika and Ebola (Time)
    • Inside the Garage labs of DIY gene hackers (Transgenic News)
    • Getting ahead of infectious disease outbreaks (Yale)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Has a new mutation in the Ebola virus made it deadlier? (Science)
    • Characteristics and outcomes of pediatric patients with EVD (CID)
    • Swedish court convicts German of stealing toxins (My Plainview)
    • Ebola evolved into deadlier enemy during the African epidemic (NY Times)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • Study finds long-expired Tamiflu still potent (CIDRAP)
    • Yellow fever vaccine co-administered with dengue vaccine in toddlers (PID)
    • Herd effect from flu vaccination in non-healthcare settings (Eurosurveillance)
    • Vaccination against yellow fever in French Guiana (Travel Med)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • Drug-resistant TB rates in W. Africa much higher than previously thought (Guardian)
    • Exposures among MERS case-patients, Saudi Arabia, Jan–Feb 2016 (CDC EID)
    • Influenza transmission on aircraft: a systematic literature review (PubMed)
    • How Angola reined in its worst yellow fever epidemic in 30 years (WHO)
    • Outbreak rates of influenza A(H3N2) among persons attending ag fairs (CDC)
    • Improving influenza virological surveillance in Europe (Eurosurveillance)
    • Candida auris: An emerging fungal infectious disease (UPMC CHS)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • Zika not uniquely stable at physiological temperatures (mBio)
    • The promise and potential perils of CRISPR (Fortune)
    • Engineers design a new weapon against bacteria (MIT News)
    • How blockchain could help to make the food we eat safer (Forbes)
    • Complete and incomplete genome packaging of Influenza A and B viruses (mBio)
    • Inside look at lab where doctors intentionally infect people with malaria (Stamford)
    • Multi-body-site microbiome and culture profiling of military trainees (mBio)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • See how global health has changed since you were born (NPR)
    • Visit to a German military medical biodefense facility (Pandora Report)
    • Battling Zika…and armchair critics with wacky suggestions (USA Today)
    • Veterans of the war that saved the world (Tracking Zebra)

    HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

    • Largest bioterrorism attack in US history was attempt to swing election (Paleofuture)
    • Cholera 101: Why an ancient disease keeps on haunting us (NPR)
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