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    Biodefense Headlines – Botched Zika Testing, CDC’s Quarantine Program, PCR Detection of Abrin

    By Global Biodefense StaffMarch 5, 2017
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    See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including agro-terrorism threats, botched Zika testing, and the CDC’s quarantine program.

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • The last mile: endgame challenges in disease eradication (WUSTL)
    • Protecting public health evidence in an adversarial environment (Medium)
    • 50 years of keeping bugs at bay: inside the CDC’s quarantine program (STAT)
    • Lessons learned from Zika response: Q&A with NCEZID’s Lyle Petersen (APHA)
    • Agro-terrorism threats addressed in House, Senate bills (HS Today)
    • An economic and policy framework for pandemic control and prevention (TAMU)
    • Botched Zika testing at D.C. lab was a failure of ‘basic arithmetic’ (WaPo)
    • Will an American-led anti-vaccine movement subvert global health? (SciAm)

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • If disaster strikes, how is DoD prepared to help? (GAO WatchBlog)
    • Deadly, drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ pose huge threat, W.H.O. says (NU Times)
    • How China can stop the world’s next pandemic (Japan Times)
    • Glaring gaps: America needs a biodefense upgrade (BOTAS)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Abrin gene detection, using polymerase chain reaction (JABR)
    • The evolving chemical/biological terrorism threat (Domestic Preparedness)
    • Man’s Ebola claims briefly shut down port authority bus terminal (NBC4 New York)
    • The Ebola pandemic: meaning, origins, and the pathways (Springer)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • New antibodies to target the respiratory syncytial virus (Labiotech)
    • Characteristics of zoonotic influenza viruses and vaccine development (WHO)
    • Federal ethics panel rejects proposal for human Zika challenge study (CIDRAP)
    • Fighting bioterrorism, disease: ‘Radically redesigned’ antibiotics show promise (GLP)
    • Brazil’s dengue vaccine in jeopardy (Science)
    • Ethics panel blocks proposed Zika vaccine research (STAT)
    • Progress on malaria vaccines (NIH)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • WHO’s first-ever list of the dirty dozen superbugs (NPR)
    • Human cases of bird flu are surging, alarming public health officials (STAT)
    • WHO analysis spotlights resistance in H7N9 gene changes (CIDRAP)
    • Testing program monitors stability of vaccines for neglected tropical diseases (ICT)
    • UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread low (AP)
    • The increasing pandemic potential of H7N9 avian influenza (CBN)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • DIY gene editing gets faster, cheaper, and more worrisome (Pandora Report)
    • Genetic tool maps how deadly viruses spread around the world in real time (Quartz)
    • NIST patents first DNA method to authenticate mouse cell lines (NIST)
    • Insect-zapping laser “fence” prepares for first enemy contact (MIT Tech Review)
    • How community paramedics use point-of-care devices (EMS1)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • Center for Health Security announces 2017 Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (CHS)
    • Want to eradicate viruses? They made us who we are (The Conversation)
    • Bicyclist killed on Riverview Drive was SLU expert on bioterrorism (STL Post)
    • Synthetic biology to help colonize Mars (PLOS SynBio)
    • ASU associate director continues to make waves in biosafety field (ASU Now)
    • Can salted doorknobs prevent superbug infections? (The Atlantic)

    HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

    • How World War I revolutionized medicine (The Atlantic)
    • The fashioning of mortality in 18th century smallpox pamphlets  (Springer)
    • Environmental microbial forensics and archaeology of past pandemics (NCBI)
    • Plague and lethal epidemics in the pre-industrial world (Cambridge)
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