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Biodefense Headlines – November 6, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
November 6, 2016
Health Security Headlines from Global Biodefense

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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