See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including federal efforts in epidemic modeling, CDC’s new quarantine rule, and the leading pathogen stories of 2016.
BIOPREPAREDNESS
- Federal efforts and opportunities in outbreak modeling (White House)
- Bill Gates: We are vulnerable to flu epidemic in next decade (BBC)
- More work lies ahead to fight Zika, other threats: CDC chief (Reuters)
- Measuring up against biothreats and disease (HSDL)
POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS
- CDC’s new quarantine rule could violate civil liberties (The Atlantic)
- 2016 gets its very own bio-lapse (Bifurcated Needle)
- The best of our bio and chemical weapons coverage in 2016 (Bulletin Atomic)
- Czech ban on biological weapons likely to have new rules (Prague Daily)
- Proposed CDC quarantine regulations risk damaging public health (Health Affairs)
- CDC reviews Zika actions as response nears 1-year mark (CIDRAP)
SELECT AGENTS
- Bring on the Ebola research (Boston Globe)
- Inhibition of Lassa Virus infection through aberrant GP1 glycosylation (mBio)
- Ebola vaccine owes a debt to the scientists who beat smallpox (HSNW)
- Spike in Q Fever has officials urging animal workers to vaccinate (AN)
- New generation of adjuvants to combat bioterrorism (Neuroimmune Pharma)
- Characterization of Yersinia by microfluidic capillary electrophoresis (Springer)
- Vaccination of NHP with highly attenuated smallpox vaccine (J-Stage)
- BAS1812 affects germination, survival in B. anthracis (MS)
- B. anthracis detection with immunomagnetic separation, amperometry (MDPI)
- Cat bite induced F. tularensis with false positive for B. quintana (JMMCR)
- Comparative analysis of proteome patterns of F. tularensis isolates (Springer)
MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES
- Antibiotic resistance: The story that won’t go away (CNBC)
- Critical vaccine shortage threatens polio eradication efforts (Newsweek)
OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE
- Germany culling some 77,000 poultry as bird flu found on farms (Reuters)
- Avian influenza in wild birds: winter 2016 to 2017 (Gov.UK)
- The threat of new strains of tuberculosis (The Wire)
RESEARCH & TECH
- Toward a blood test for prion disease (C&EN)
- More anti-CRISPR proteins to block Cas9 (The Scientist)
- Breathalyzer-like nanoarray sensor detects disease (C&EN)
- How big data is being used to fight infectious disease threats (IBD)
- Multiplex detection of bacterial toxins using RP-HPLC-MS/MS (Applied Micro)
- Preventive anti-epidemic measures in armed conflicts areas (Zaslavsky)
SPECIAL INTEREST
- Viruses, DNA cages, and tigers, oh my! A review of Tiger Tiger (Tracking Zebra)
- The pathogen buzz of 2016 (Contagions Blog)
- Inside China’s ‘mosquito factory’ fighting Zika and dengue (CNN)
- Germ Wars: Politics of Microbes and America’s Landscape of Fear (Google)
- Wins and losses in global health in 2016 (NPR)
