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Biodefense Headlines – February 26, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 26, 2017
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See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the H5N8 outbreak, a blueprint to prevent epidemics, and a nerve-agent assassination.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • FEMA training center suspected lethal toxin mix-up years ago (USA Today)
  • Talking about bioethics & policy under the Trump Administration (Contagion)
  • To increase vaccination rates, share information on disease outbreaks (HBR)
  • National Institutes of Health FY 2018 appropriations statement (ASM)
  • The anti-vaccine movement gains a friend in the White House (NY Times)
  • An essential guide to food safety challenges in the 21st Century (New Food)
  • Half the funding for a federal vaccine program is tied up in the ACA (Vox)
  • CDC FY 2018 appropriations statement (ASM)
  • An R&D blueprint for action to prevent epidemics (WHO)
  • Are biosafety failures the new norm? (Contagion)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • BARDA, Project Bioshield report details core national security role (CBN)
  • First line of defense against outbreaks is financing pandemic preparedness  (WB)
  • Plague! How to prepare for the next pandemic (New Scientist)
  • Enhancing community engagement in preparedness (ECDC)
  • Preparing for the worst means training like the best (ASPR)
  • When nature is a terrorist (Washington Post)
  • The next pandemic could be dripping on your head (NPR)
  • CEPI: preparing for the worst (The Lancet) – subscription
  • Not if, but when: A warning (Bifurcated Needle)
  • Strategic National Stockpile responders (CDC)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Chemical weapon found on body of North Korean leader’s half-brother (NPR)
  • Holographic deep learning for rapid optical screening of anthrax spores (bioRxiv)
  • Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world’s most dangerous pathogens (Nature)
  • F. tularensis Type B infection from a fish hook injury — Minnesota, 2016 (MMWR)
  • Omadacycline against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis (AAC)
  • Ebola preparedness: Rapid approaches for proficiency testing (ASM)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Test shows doctors if antibiotics will work or not – so why isn’t it being used? (TC)
  • MIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in vaccine manufacturing (MIT)
  • Feverish sprint for a Zika vaccine faces a strange hurdle this summer (SciAm)
  • NIH begins study of vaccine to protect against mosquito-borne diseases (NIH)
  • Exactly how bad is antibiotic resistance right now? (Popular Science)
  • To test Zika vaccines, scientists need a new outbreak (NPR)
  • CDC: 2016-2017 flu vaccine nearly 50 percent effective (AAFP)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Spain reports outbreak of highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus in ducks (Reuters)
  • Three deadly viruses that could spawn the next pandemic (IRIN)
  • Risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated (bioRxiv)
  • Alarming superbugs a risk to people, animals and food, EU warns (Reuters)
  • Animals as surveillance tool for monitoring bioterrorism, human health hazards (SD)
  • Responding to the threat of urban yellow fever outbreaks (The Lancet)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • In the age of biological therapeutics, chemists move to ADCs (Labiotech)
  • IARPA wants ways to protect nation from genome editing (Nextgov)
  • Who owns the revolutionary gene editing technology CRISPR? (Vice News)
  • Are emerging pathogen outbreaks correlated with construction of wetlands? (NAS)
  • How we can use light to fight bacteria (The Conversation)
  • Harvesting therapeutic proteins from animal slobber (C&EN)
  • The race to map the human body — one cell at a time (Nature)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Summer workshop on pandemics, bioterrorism, and global health security (Pandora Report)
  • Scientists compete to build a ‘Star Trek’-style medical tricorder (STAT)
  • The politics of fear had major impact on Ebola epidemic response (MSF)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Collapse of Aztec society linked to catastrophic salmonella outbreak (Nature)
  • Ribosome-inactivating proteins – in honor of Professor Fiorenzo Stirpe (MDPI)
  • A taste for pork helped a deadly virus jump to humans (NPR)

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