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Biodefense Headlines – January 22, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
January 22, 2017
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Biodefense News ScanSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including improving biosurveillance systems, turning competitors into collaborators during epidemics, and therapeutic windows for ricin post-exposure treatment.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Using the lessons of economics to stop global pandemics before they start (Quartz)
  • Strengthening the US Medical Countermeasure Enterprise for biothreats (HS)
  • Congress needs to prepare itself, the nation, for the next pandemic (The Hill)
  • Improving biosurveillance systems for health emergency situational awareness (HS)
  • GMU trains first responders against infectious disease (Pandora Report)
  • A global plan to defend against the future’s deadliest diseases (The Atlantic)
  • Healthcare preparedness: Saving lives (Health Security)
  • Sustainable clinical laboratory capacity for health in Africa (The Lancet)
  • We’re not prepared for future Ebola outbreaks, experts warn (STAT)
  • Finding treatments fast: How to turn competitors into collaborators (Nature)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Scientists buck opposition to preprints in NIH grant applications (The Scientist)
  • Congress demands details of secret CDC lab incidents (USA Today)
  • Malaria champions see Trump uncertainty at crucial time (Reuters)
  • Atlanta’s CDC could lose millions in Obamacare repeal (Online Athens)
  • Surprising contenders emerge for Trump’s NIH chief (Nature)
  • New rule on clinical trial reporting doesn’t go far enough (STAT)
  • Proposed presidential autism–vaccine panel could help spread disease (SciAm)
  • The future of emerging infectious diseases in the Trump era (BugBitten)
  • A biosafety agenda to spur biotech development and prevent accidents (HS)
  • Trump’s CDC may face serious hurdles (Scientific American)
  • Elevating feelings over facts is a bad way to make health policy (STAT)
  • Funding and organization of US federal health security programs (HS)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Completing the development of Ebola vaccines (CIDRAP)
  • Frieden: ‘We were days away’ from Ebola pandemic (STAT)
  • Validation of a new reliable method for the diagnosis of avian botulism (PLOS)
  • Whole-genome relationships among Francisella bacteria of diverse origins (OSTI)
  • Short-term clinical safety profile of brincidofovir in the treatment of smallpox (AR)
  • Extended therapeutic window for post-exposure treatment of ricin intoxication (Toxicon)
  • Prevention of the development or use of biological weapons (Health Security)
  • Cationic host defense peptides against Category A pathogens (PGH)
  • Effects of differentiation and neurotoxin on gene expression in neuronal cells (DiVA)
  • Autoinducer-2 signaling as virulence regulator in a mouse model of pneumonic plague (ASM)
  • New blood test can predict outcome for Ebola-infected patients (GEN)
  • Perceptions and management practices on anthrax in East-Central Bhutan (RG)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • The “why vaccines don’t cause autism” papers (PLOS)
  • We will miss antibiotics when they’re gone (NY Times)
  • First U.S. death from pan-resistant superbug reported (IDSE)
  • New vaccines against epidemic infectious diseases (NEJM)
  • Toward a virus-free polio vaccine (The Scientist)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Study: CRE could be spreading more widely than we think (CIDRAP)
  • Person-to-person contact may cause most drug-resistant TB cases (Reuters)
  • Dangerous superbug appears to be spreading stealthily in US hospitals (STAT)
  • Lassa fever is back on the rise in Nigeria (Ventures Africa)
  • More H5N8 Europe, H5N1 outbreaks in India and Niger (CIDRAP)
  • Why is extensively drug-resistant TB on the rise? (NPR)
  • Yellow fever emergency in Brazil: A disease to watch (Tracking Zebra)
  • Chinese team posts analysis of early, sudden H7N9 spike (CIDRAP)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Evolving norovirus genotypes: implications for epidemiology and immunity (PLOS)
  • Essential public health functions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMHJ)
  • Gene-edited animals face US regulatory crackdown (Nature)
  • Advancing phage therapy (ASM)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • War as a driver in tuberculosis evolution (Contagions Blog)
  • DA Henderson – physically gone but his impact will live on forever (A of E)
  • Smallpox virus retention controversy (Wikipedia)

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