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    Biodefense Headlines – February 5, 2017

    By Global Biodefense StaffFebruary 5, 2017
    Ebola and Biopreparedness News
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    Ebola and Biopreparedness NewsSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including agroterrorism vulnerabilities, biosafety incidents at Winnipeg lab, and the rise and spread of MCR-1.

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • The time is ripe to reform the World Health Organization (Nature)
    • Reimagining WHO: leadership and action for a new Director-General (The Lancet)
    • Defining DURC: When scientific advances can both help and hurt humanity (Sioux City)
    • A destructive executive action for global health (Pump Handle)
    • CDC rules broaden; debate over public health vs. civil liberties (The Telegraph)
    • Africa CDC official launch (African Union)
    • Dangerous infectious diseases—good news for Wall Street? (Phys.org)
    • Proposed U.S. biotech rules raise industry hopes and anxieties (Science)

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • Bioterrorism preparedness & response position paper (Pandora Report)
    • Vulnerability, risk and agroterrorism: an examination of international strategy (Springer)
    • Congress needs to act now to prevent another biodisaster (The Hill)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Inside America’s secretive biolabs (USA Today)
    • Germ warfare: the battle for the key to modern vaccines (The Guardian)
    • Workers may have been exposed to Ebola, HIV and TB at Winnipeg lab (CBC)
    • Ebola training center led by UNMC doubles grant funding (Lincoln Journal)
    • Disinfection of Ebola virus in sterilized municipal wastewater (PLOS NTD)
    • Groups detail Madagascar plague outbreak, ciprofloxacin treatment (CIDRAP)
    • Febrile illness in HCW caring for Ebola virus disease patients (Eurosurveillance)
    • A recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus Ebola vaccine (NEJM)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • The strange mental quirk that’s endangering the public’s health (Forbes)
    • Neglected tropical diseases are finally getting the attention they deserve (STAT)
    • Most Americans think the benefits of the MMR vaccine outweigh risks (SciAm)
    • Vaccine advocates scramble to mobilize against threats to public health (STAT)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • The rise and spread of MCR-1 (Contagion Live)
    • National Guard team works to make sure air safe at big events (WMUR)
    • The Sentinel System as the main influenza surveillance tool (Springer)
    • Surge of yellow fever in Brazil raises alarms (CIDRAP)
    • Drug-resistant malaria turns up in the U.K. (NPR)
    • Chikungunya virus: an update on the biology and pathogenesis (The Lancet)
    • Report: Antibiotic resistance rising in Europe (CIDRAP)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • DISCONTOOLS – Prioritizing animal diseases (BioMed Central)
    • Tuberculosis-resistant cows developed for the first time using CRISPR (Phys.org)
    • Experience the Smart Pod deployable healthcare facility in virtual reality (Baylor)
    • FDA wants to regulate animals altered using the gene-editing techniques (MIT Tech)
    • Kansas State University is the Silicon Valley for biodefense (KTIC)
    • Rogue antibody linked to severe second dengue infections (ScienceNews)
    • Probabilistic forecasting in infectious disease epidemiology (bioRxiv)
    • Material scientist invents breath monitor to detect flu (Phys.org)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • ‘Containment’ author brings chilling tale to Westport (South Coast Today)
    • ‘Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America’ by G. Jarrow (Deakin Review)
    • Boyd Woodruff, microbiologist who paved way for antibiotics, dies (NY Times)
    • Smriti Sharma vs. the sand fly (JHU Global Health Now)
    • Typhoid fever and the American Civil War (PBS)
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