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Biodefense Headlines – December 25, 2016

by Global Biodefense Staff
December 25, 2016
Biodefense and Bioterrorism News

Global Biodefense News HighlightsSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including health emergency readiness grades, biodefense S&T, and CDC quarantine regulations.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • 26 states, DC get poor grades on health emergency readiness (Local10)
  • World Health Organization rethinks its response to disease outbreaks (Nature)
  • Biological time bombs: Likelihood of bioterrorism and biowarfare (CBRNe Portal)
  • Incremental progress not enough to handle biological emergencies (Blue Ribbon)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Homeland Biodefense Science and Technology Capability Review (White House)
  • ‘Gene drive’ moratorium shot down at UN biodiversity meeting (Nature)
  • Federal powers to control communicable conditions: Call for reforms (Health Security)
  • World’s deadliest microorganisms may soon be studied in Boston (WCVB)
  • Proposed CDC quarantine regulations risk damaging public health (HealthAffairs)
  • CDP suspends all biological, chemical operations temporarily (Anniston Star)
  • NIH discusses curbing lab size to fund more midcareer scientists (Science)
  • The case for global health security (CDC)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Vaccine would protect people from Ebola, ‘Lancet’ reports (NPR)
  • New Ebola vaccine gives 100 percent protection (NY Times)
  • Ebola might not make some people sick, study finds (NBC News)
  • Marburg virus hamster model accurately recapitulates hemorrhagic fever (Nature)
  • Yeast reporter assay to identify cellular components of ricin toxin A (MDPI)
  • New strategy for full-length Ebola virus glycoprotein expression in E.coli (Springer)
  • Visual screening and programmable subtype classification of EVD biomarkers (Wiley)
  • B. pseudomallei typical and atypical lipopolysaccharide strain typing (ASTMH)
  • Detection of B. anthracis using immunomagnetic separation and amperometry (MDPI)
  • Effect of botulinum toxin on vasoconstriction and sympathetic neurotransmitters (Wiley)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • The grim forecast of antimicrobial resistance (Pandora Report)
  • New types of antibiotics are key to fighting drug-resistant bacteria (PEW)
  • Generic copy of Roche flu pill Tamiflu hits U.S. market (Reuters)
  • Impact of the newly licensed dengue vaccine in endemic countries (PLOS)
  • UConn researchers kill MRSA with tailored chemistry (UConn Today)
  • US Army Zika vaccine license to Sanofi raises questions (STAT)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • How hospitals, nursing homes keep ‘superbug’ outbreaks secret (TRF)
  • Chances of Zika outbreak in India high, warns expert (Deccan Herald)
  • Cholera cases in Yemen – Surveillance, forecasting and response update (WHO)
  • NY mycology laboratory testing for emerging fungal pathogen (Wadsworth)
  • Montenegro reports its first H5N8 detection (CIDRAP)
  • Angola declares end to world’s worst yellow fever epidemic in decades (TRF)
  • El Niño and global warming blamed for Zika spread (Scientific American)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Compact CRISPR systems found in some of world’s smallest microbes (Phys.org)
  • BaDx portable diagnostics and rapid germination (Sandia)
  • Early warning of biological threats via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (MDPI)
  • Behavioral change models for infectious disease transmission 2010–15 (Royal Society)
  • Scientists develop device to detect 17 different diseases (The Telegraph)
  • Human monkeypox: Current state and future implications (MDPI)
  • Development of electrochemical biosensor for detection of saxitoxin (Wiley)
  • Zika triggers call for more arbovirus research (CIDRAP)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Training opportunity in transboundary animal diseases (IIAD)
  • Perspectives on achieving successful communications for ID threats (Maryn McKenna)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Ancient DNA reveals genetic legacy of pandemics in the Americas (The Guardian)
  • Smallpox as an actual biothreat: Lessons learned 1972 Yugoslavia (ResearchGate)
  • The Stone Age plague: 1000 years of persistence in Eurasia (BioRxiv)

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