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    Biodefense Headlines – December 4, 2016

    By Global Biodefense StaffDecember 4, 2016
    Ebola Particles - Headlines of the Week
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    Ebola Particles - Headlines of the WeekSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including training global disease warriors, RevCon’s disappointing outcome, and the controversial 21st Century Cures bill.

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • Weapons treaties look ready to unravel, and that’s a big problem (WaPo)
    • Final Document of the Eighth Review Conference (UNOG)
    • The Eighth BWC Review Conference: a minimal outcome (CBW Events)
    • The failure that was the 8th RevCon (Pandora Report)
    • U.N. finally apologizes for cholera in Haiti … but omits one point (NPR)
    • House passes controversial medical funding ‘cures’ bill (NBC News)
    • Science, education leaders call for a U.S. science adviser (AAAS)
    • Trump’s pick for US health secretary has pushed to cut science spending (Nature)
    • 21st Century Cures: A real plan for our national health (The Hill)

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • UNMC will train global disease warriors (Omaha World Herald)
    • What you should know about smallpox in the post-eradication era (AAP)
    • Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreements (CDC)
    • Responding to the next Ebola (US News)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • What it’s like to handle the nastiest pathogens as your day job (NPR)
    • Melioidosis: a greater threat than previously suspected? (Science Direct)
    • Adverse reaction after vaccinia virus vaccination — New Mexico, 2016 (MMWR)
    • Engaging with national authorities: MSF’s experience during Ebola epidemic (AH)
    • SINE compounds alter new world alphavirus capsid localization (PubMed)
    • Canadian lab worker released from Ebola quarantine (CIDRAP)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • Aradigm’s inhaled antibiotic fails late-stage study, shares sink (Reuters)
    • Takeda to build $106M vaccine plant for dengue vax push (Fierce Biopharma)
    • Rapid lab tests can help reduce antibiotic resistance (STAT)
    • Autism not linked to flu or flu shot during pregnancy (The Scientist)
    • Older adults are still skipping vaccinations (NY Times)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • Texas confirms its first case of local Zika transmission (STAT)
    • Study says pigs, llamas susceptible to MERS-CoV infection (CIDRAP)
    • From Zika to Ebola: New online tool lets everyone track epidemic outbreaks (ETCIO)
    • Japan orders major poultry cull after first bird flu outbreak in nearly two years (Reuters)
    • OIE: First high-path avian flu in Tunisia (CIDRAP)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • Why is the FBI reaching out to student bioengineers? (Motherboard)
    • Biowarfare agents: Toxin testing (Spectroscopy Now)
    • Humans are the reason malaria is so deadly (Popular Mechanics)
    • Advances in biodosimetry for radiation exposure mass casualty events (PR)
    • Glowing crystals can detect, cleanse contaminated drinking water (Phys.org)
    • Design of new nano-scale materials for development of sensors (Nature)
    • Smartphone multispectral imaging for diagnosis of skin lesions (Optical Society)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • Designated Survivor, bioterrorism, and elections (Tracking Zebra)
    • Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative Fellowship 2017 (UPMC CHS)

    HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

    • Lessons learned from reconstructing the 1918 influenza pandemic (JoID)
    • Effects of smallpox on British emancipation policy in Revolutionary War (Cambridge)
    • Smallpox and the decline of the Khoikhoi population 1652-1780 (Univ of Hawaii)
    • Y. pestis genomes reveal long-term persistence of historical plague focus (BioRxiv)
    • Historic perspective on measles prevention and applications for Pakistan (JFJMU)
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