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Biodefense Headlines – February 19, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 19, 2017
Biodefense and Health Security Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including Bill Gates on pandemic preparedness, Bacillus anthracis identification methods, and the return of a lethal bird flu to China.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • How best to prepare for epidemics? Strengthen primary care (The Conversation)
  • Prescription Medication Preparedness Initiative (PHE.gov)
  • Pandemic preparedness: Learning from experience (Pandora Report)
  • A new kind of terrorism could wipe out 30M people in less than a year (BI)
  • NU lab plays key role in biocybersecurity (KETV 7)
  • Sustainable clinical laboratory capacity for health in Africa (Lancet GH)
  • Big changes coming for hospital emergency managers (Emergency Management)
  • Should I stay or should I go? Bioterror emergency response preparedness (PR)
  • Use of pharmacy text messaging capabilities in a future pandemic (Healthcare Ready)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Ebola funding surge hides falling investment in other neglected diseases (Nature)
  • Establishing the Africa CDC: responding to Africa’s health threats (Lancet GH)
  • Who should be allowed to use CRISPR? (PopSci)
  • Vaccine programs are threatened by exemptions, ACA repeal (STAT)
  • The sustainable development goals and the Global Health Security Agenda (Springer)
  • International collaborations to defend against bioweapons: The UK/US experience (PR)
  • Bill and Melinda Gates make the case US engagement in global health (STAT)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Ebola ‘super-spreaders’ cause most cases (BBC News)
  • U.S. shuts high-security labs over concerns about air hose safety (Reuters)
  • Persistence of immune responses induced by Ebola virus vaccines (Lancet GH)
  • ASM and APHL’s new interim recommendations for Bacillus identification (ASM)
  • Single mutation in the envelope protein modulates flavivirus antigenicity, pathogenesis (PLOS)
  • Removing the viral threat: two months to stop Pandemic X from taking hold (DARPA)
  • Pneumonic plague transmission, Moramanga, Madagascar, 2015 (CDC)
  • Selection of DNA aptamers against Botulinum Neurotoxin E (Wiley)
  • An empirical analysis of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Scientific Reports)
  • Evaluation of PCR systems for field screening of Bacillus anthracis (Health Security)
  • New study describes role of Ebola super-spreaders (CIDRAP)
  • The Ebola suspect’s dilemma (Lancet GH)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Could this common weed help fight deadly superbugs? (CBS News)
  • Licensure under the FDA Animal Rule: A path to success (Pandora Report)
  • ‘Vaccines are safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines save lives.’ (Pump Handle)
  • Researchers study effective inhibition of MERS-CoV infection by resveratrol (ICT)
  • Bacterial failsafe may unlock superbug treatment (Horizon)
  • New way to fight superbugs found in noxious weed (NatGeo)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • A lethal bird flu returns to China (CFR)
  • China bird flu deaths surge in what could be the worst season ever (Reuters)
  • Predictive biology: Predicting emergence by understanding the past (PR)
  • Rare disease strikes a Bronx area all too familiar with rats (NY Times)
  • Zika persists in semen, but viral shedding stops in most cases in a few months (STAT)
  • Veterinarians: Warriors in the battle against disease (The Hill)
  • Taiwan bird flu culls reach nearly 130,000 as H5N6 cases confirmed (Reuters)
  • Hard to detect, China bird flu virus may be more widespread (Reuters)
  • Brazil’s expanding yellow fever outbreak started with monkeys (NPR)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Human gene editing receives science panel’s support (NY Times)
  • Reactions to CRISPR patent decision (PLOS SynBio)
  • Microscopic bots could swim through the bloodstream to deliver drugs (SciAm)
  • Point-of-need diagnostics: Biosurveillance in Sierra Leone (BMJ)
  • New point-of-care diagnostic test rapidly detects infectious bacteria (Healio)
  • ECDC releases app for infectious disease threats on the go (ECDC)
  • Harvard, MIT research institute holds on to gene-editing patent rights (Reuters)
  • The birth of CRISPR Inc (Science)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Here’s why NASA is sending a superbug into space (STAT) subscription
  • Scientists sending a lethal pathogen to the space station this weekend (Gizmodo)
  • The elite medical detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EID)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Germ history: Milkmaids inspire vaccines, but the germs keep coming (NPR)
  • Plague in Brazil: From now and then (Research Gate)
  • Ötzi’s Lyme disease in context (Contagions Blog)
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