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Biodefense Headlines – January 29, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
January 29, 2017
Biological Defense Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including expanding veterinary biosurveillance, mapping anthrax risk, and the yellow fever outbreak in Brazil.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Position paper: Bioterrorism preparedness & response (IAB)
  • Proliferation of bird flu outbreaks raises risk of human pandemic (SciAm)
  • How prepared is the US for an avian flu redux? (CIDRAP)
  • Global coordination for R&D to prevent and respond to epidemics (Chatham)
  • Review of the pandemic influenza preparedness framework (WHO)
  • 2016 National profile of local health departments (NACCHO)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • The importance of understanding the DURC debate (Contagion Live)
  • S&T innovation, and partnerships in the future of USAID (NAP)
  • Why the CDC’s power to quarantine should worry us (NY Times)
  • WHO seeks new leader to rebuild damaged reputation (Reuters)
  • 2017 list of priority diseases – World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Q&A: The future of genome editing and how it will be regulated (UoV)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Missing Russian smallpox researcher (Pandora Report)
  • Congress gets answers on Anniston CDP’s Ricin mix-up (AL.com)
  • Ebola’s forgotten victims – what we can learn from them (ReliefWeb)
  • Modeling the ecological niche of B. anthracis to map anthrax risk (ASTMH)
  • Stability of a plant-produced anthrax vaccine candidate (Science Direct)
  • Immunobiology of Ebola and Lassa virus infections (Nature)
  • Cowpox and Mousepox homologs of Smallpox B22 protein (DRUM)
  • Wildlife plague surveillance near China–Kazakh border: 2012–2015 (Wiley)
  • Tularemia from a One Health perspective (Springer)
  • Modeling rabbit responses to aerosol exposures of B. anthracis spores (Wiley)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • WHO vaccine pipeline tracker (WHO)
  • Brazil orders 11.5m yellow fever vaccines amid worst outbreak in years (DW)
  • New therapeutic targets for Zika virus revealed (DDD)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Expanding veterinary biosurveillance in Washington, DC (Science Direct)
  • New medical worry: deadly fungal infection that resists treatment (NPR)
  • Deadly yellow fever outbreak in Brazil sparks fears of Zika-like epidemic (FP)
  • CDC: Flu now widespread in 37 states (CIDRAP)
  • W.H.O. warns of worrisome bird flu in China (NY Times)
  • Superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotic shows up in E. coli in China (STAT)
  • H7N9 is having a big season…Happy New Year! (Virology Down Under)
  • H5N8, other strains strike birds in Europe, Japan, Israel (CIDRAP)
  • New bird flu virus type confirmed on German turkey farm (Reuters)
  • CDC expands search for rats and people infected with Seoul virus (STAT)
  • Brazil yellow fever outbreak kills 40 (Reuters)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Researchers invent a faster and more accurate test for diagnosing Zika (MedXpress)
  • India begins outdoor caged trials of genetically modified mosquitoes (Healio)
  • Sorry, Silicon Valley, but ‘disruption’ isn’t a cure-all (Boston Globe)
  • New sensors can detect single protein molecules (SD)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Vaccination, natives, and narratives in the North American west (UC Press)
  • Black Death and the Catholic Church in Fourteenth Century England (Kalamazoo)
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