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Biodefense Headlines – November 27, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
November 27, 2016
Bioterrorism and Biodefense News

Bioterrorism and Biodefense NewsSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the risk of epidemics as Aedes aegypti mosquito areas spread, trends in infectious disease mortality, and a global standard for Zika testing.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • BTWC 8th RevCon Final Document (The Trench)
  • Canceling the Zika public health emergency was the wrong thing to do (STAT)
  • The challenges to public health under the Trump administration (WaPo)
  • Biosafety company seeks improved regulation of bioscience laboratories (FNP)
  • One Health: Recreating the future (Canadian Cattlemen)
  • Global standards for Zika testing needed, doctors say (Reuters)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • What global disease threat worries public-health officials most? (WSJ)
  • Why the nation must prepare for future pandemic threats (SD Union Tribune)
  • As the Aedes aegypti mosquito spreads globally, so does risk of epidemics (WaPo)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Army reprimands general over anthrax debacle (Army Times)
  • Ebola nurse banned for hiding Pauline Cafferkey’s high temperature (BBC)
  • How DNA evidence confirmed a Soviet cover-up of an anthrax accident (Atlantic)
  • Rapid testing crucial during Ebola outbreaks (VOA)
  • Iran’s EMS native reaction protocol to suspected Ebola patients (JoB&B)
  • Pan-genome analysis of Senegalese and Gambian strains of B. anthracis (AJOL)
  • Suspected cutaneous anthrax: Two black eschars in a 6-year-old (UMSU)
  • NYC Ebola concept of operations (NETEC)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Nigeria fights myths, fear in polio vaccine drive (Reuters)
  • Microfluidics and biosensors to tackle antibiotic resistance (Labiotech)
  • Haiti’s Ministry of Health successfully vaccinates 729,000 against cholera (ReliefWeb)
  • FDA releases 2014 NARMS integrated report (FDA.gov)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Finland finds H5 bird flu in wild birds in Aland islands (Reuters)
  • Zika is no longer an emergency – it’s worse than that, says WHO (New Scientist)
  • Bird flu: Netherlands culls 190,000 ducks (BBC)
  • Winning the war against yellow fever (WHO)
  • Russia to decide on swine fever quarantine next week (Reuters)
  • Has Zika circulated quietly in Asia for decades? (Japan Times)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Nagasaki Prefecture and city agree to host lab for handling deadly pathogens (JT)
  • Trends in infectious disease mortality in US (Science Daily)
  • PhD student finds surprising secret to detecting staph infections earlier (USC)
  • Synthesis of bacterial siderophores and applications in pathogen detection (Purdue)
  • El Niño conditions in the Pacific precedes dengue epidemics in S. Asia (Umeå)
  • Research highlights Americans’ vulnerability to infectious diseases (CNN)
  • How gene editing will change agriculture (Agriculture.com)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Deadline Extended: 2016-17 National Health Security Awards (NACCHO)
  • When you’re the scientist in the family (Science)

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