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Biodefense Headlines – February 12, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 12, 2017
Biological & Chemical Defense News

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the new HHS director, transparency in global health security, and lessons from three decades of pandemics.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Treaty to stop biopiracy threatens to delay flu vaccines (Nature)
  • Trump’s pick for health and human secretary takes office (STAT)
  • Influenza virus guidance for surveyors, providers and suppliers (CMS.gov)
  • 5 communication lessons learned in the wake of the Zika crisis (Forbes)
  • CDC’s emerging infectious diseases center 2016 accomplishments (NCEZID)
  • Global health security: how can laboratories help? (The Lancet)
  • Greater transparency called for in global health security (HuffPost)
  • Reimagining infrastructure investment to spur biotechnology innovation (Forbes)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • My fears about bioweapons and synthetic biology (PLOS Synbio Community)
  • What three decades of pandemic threats can teach us about the future (Health Affairs)
  • Germs of terror – bioterrorism and science communication after Sep 11 (JCOM)
  • Biodefense and cybersecurity research at UNL laboratory (KETV)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Kansas bio-defense facility is on track (KFDI)
  • Federal Select Agent Program update on transparency, community engagement (HHS/CDC)
  • Study: Standard pasteurization kills Ebola virus in breast milk (CIDRAP)
  • Ricin poisoning may one day be treatable with new antidote (Science News)
  • Anthrax outbreak persists in Zambia despite public health efforts (Disease Daily)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • German biotech gets seed funding to repurpose cancer drugs for the flu (Labiotech)
  • Millions of children to receive measles vaccine in north-eastern Nigeria (WHO)
  • The surge of universal influenza vaccines (T&F)
  • How the anti-vaxxers are winning (NY Times)
  • Studies shed light on effects of serial flu shots (CIDRAP)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Mcr-1 and the end of the world (Reflections on IPC)
  • Saudi Arabia reports severe MERS infection in Mecca (CIDRAP)
  • Mumps virus infections are on the rise across the U.S. (Newsweek)
  • Yellow fever kills 600 monkeys in Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest (WaPo)
  • Korea on high alert as second strain of foot-and-mouth disease confirmed (Reuters)
  • H5N5 strikes again in Germany, other strains spark more outbreaks in Europe (CIDRAP)
  • Zika virus ‘spillback’ into primates raises risk of future human outbreaks (ScienceNews)
  • Drug resistant malaria found in EU. How worried should we be? (UN Dispatch)
  • SARS and MERS: what’s next? (Vital Record)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • The Colosseum that is CRISPR patent wars (Pandora Report)
  • Effective rate of influenza reassortment is limited during human infection (PLOS)
  • Disease and economic burdens of dengue (The Lancet)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • In studying sick fish, scientists trace history of fevers (NPR)
  • Swiss antibodies and the US NIH will fight ancient viral DNA causing ALS (Labiotech)
  • The mould that first made Penicillin – Alexander Fleming (Bonhams)
  • Viral evolution: mummy virus challenges presumed history of smallpox (Current Bio)

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