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Biodefense Headlines – February 5, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 5, 2017
Ebola and Biopreparedness News

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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