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

by Global Biodefense Staff
March 5, 2017
Biodefense Headlines of the Week - MRSA

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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