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Biodefense Headlines – December 11, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
December 11, 2016
Biological & Chemical Defense News

Biological & Chemical Defense NewsSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including a mummy with smallpox, bioscavengers as nerve-agent countermeasures, and upcoming legal fights over vaccine refusal legislation.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • What life scientists should know about security threats (Science)
  • Why the FDA wants more control over some lab tests (Scientific American)
  • Amid growing vaccine refusals, Texas gears up for legal fight (STAT)
  • Stopgap spending bill leaves US scientists in limbo (Nature)
  • Winners and losers of the 21st Century Cures Act (STAT)
  • Four steps to precision public health (Nature)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • 2017-2022 Health care preparedness and response capabilities (HSDL)
  • Ensuring a coordinated response to Zika and other public health threats (ASPR)
  • Continuus Pharmaceuticals partners with FDA and BARDA (PharmaTech)
  • Nanotherapeutics opens medical countermeasure plant near Progress Park (Gainsville)
  • Infectious disease emergencies: taking the long-term view (The Lancet)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Searching for a vaccine for the plague (Newsweek)
  • Substrate-selective exosite within the metalloproteinase anthrax lethal factor (JBC)
  • Learning from Ebola – Workshop proceedings from NAS & laboratory battles (Pandora Rpt)
  • Ebola in Sierra Leone: ‘The scars still show. People are very angry’ (The Guardian)
  • The Yersinia pestis effector YopM inhibits pyrin inflammasome activation (PLOS Pathogens)
  • A stabbing, a possible Ebola outbreak, and a ‘time bomb’ (NPR)
  • NLRP3 restriction of neutrophil response to pulmonary tularemia (PLOS Pathogens)
  • Plague: Dozens of cases in Madagascar (Outbreak News Today)
  • Vaccinia virus protein C6 inhibits type I IFN signaling (PLOS Pathogens)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths averted by flu vaccination (CDC)
  • A Zika vaccine is being developed at warp speed, but will there be a market? (STAT)
  • A third of people given antibiotics don’t need them (NatGeo)
  • Bioscavengers in the medical management of nerve-agent casualties (Science Direct)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Escalation of antibiotic-resistant infections is a ‘train wreck’ (KUNR)
  • Zika is no longer a global health emergency – it’s worse (UN Dispatch)
  • Europe weighs H5N8 threat as Russia reports new outbreak (CIDRAP)
  • Scottish farmers tell of “nightmare” bird flu lockdown (Herald Scotland)
  • Superbug gene found on pig farm (The Scientist)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Do single rooms reduce HCAI? (Reflections on IPC)
  • Targeting the virulence factors of MRSA (UPMC CHS)
  • Evotec gets hold of CRISPR in a new partnership with Merck (Labiotech)
  • How the CRISPR patent dispute became so heated (Atlantic)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Feedback sought: prioritizing critical infrastructure personnel for influenza response (NACCHO)
  • The consequences of a DMV approach to infectious disease (Tracking Zebra)
  • 6 public health advocacy wins of 2016 (APHA)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Klamath Falls and the Navy’s forgotten filariasis problem (Navy Med)
  • Child mummy found with oldest known smallpox virus (NatGeo)
  • Million-year-old ‘hero bug’ emerges from cave (NPR)
  • Researchers find Plasmodium DNA in ancient Roman teeth (CIDRAP)
  • Health & humanity: Q&A with historian Karen Kruse Thomas (Global Health Now)
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