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Biodefense Headlines – Mumps Outbreaks Spiking, Chemical Inactivation of B. anthracis, Rats Sniff Out Tuberculosis

by Global Biodefense Staff
April 2, 2017
Biodefense and Health Security Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing epidemics, a spike in outbreaks of mumps, and antibacterial innovations as part of national security.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • We need to invest in public health to keep America great (STAT)
  • Renew our leadership’s commitment to protecting Americans from outbreaks (The Hill)
  • Next generation of antibacterial innovation to enhance national security (ASPR)
  • NIH funding generates large numbers of private-sector patents (MIT News)
  • Fostering a culture of biosafety, biosecurity, and responsible conduct in the life sciences  (PR)
  • ASM urges strong support for research and public health federal budget (ASM)
  • A novel bipartisan approach to health care reform (Forbes)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Developing training for human health science students to face biological incidents (RG)
  • John Bartlett’s take on critical infectious disease topics (Medscape)
  • Irish-led pandemic research shows we’re at greatest ever risk of outbreak (Silicon Republic)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Patent: chemical inactivation of Bacillus anthracis spores in soil (Google)
  • The trick to saving chimps from Ebola (The Star)
  • Elyria man pleads guilty in Central Ohio anthrax hoax (The Chronicle)
  • Medic suspended for ‘dishonesty’ over Ebola temperature (BBC)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • CARB-X powering antibacterial innovation to enhance national security (ASPR)
  • Freezing, shortages among global vaccine challenges (CIDRAP)
  • Mumps outbreaks are spiking, raising questions about vaccine effectiveness (STAT)
  • Screening out irrelevant cell-based models of disease (Univ of Edinburgh)
  • Rapid ‘bacterial fingerprinting’ might cut antibiotic overuse (CIDRAP)
  • NIAID begins vaccinations in a mid-stage trial for Zika (Reuters)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Meningitis outbreak kills at least 140 in Nigeria (BBC)
  • Lassa fever outbreak in West Africa (Pandora Report)
  • AST for new antibiotics: the clinical laboratorian’s dilemma (AST)
  • Most dengue infections transmitted in and around home (JHSPH)
  • China reports 17 H7N9 cases as fast disease progression noted (CIDRAP)
  • Measles outbreak across Europe (BBC)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Influenza attack: Raman to reveal hijack (Spectroscopy Now)
  • Google invests in Oxford spinout’s biotech ‘superglue’ for vaccines (Labiotech)
  • Living ‘flying syringes’ could detect emerging infectious diseases (Science Daily)
  • Alphabet investment arm backs SpyBiotech’s quest for next-gen vaccines (VB)
  • Comparing nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing emerging epidemics (PNAS)
  • NAMRU-SA researchers developing field portable sterilizer (U.S. Navy)
  • Mortality surveillance for infectious diseases in the U.S. DoD 1998-2013 (PubMed)
  • Accuracy of climate-based forecasts of pathogen spread (RSOS)

SPECIAL INTEREST + HISTORICAL

  • Base X: The Isle of Anthrax (Discover)
  • These rats can detect tuberculosis with their noses (Vocativ)
  • Variola minor in coalfield areas of England and Wales, 1921–34 (ScienceDirect)
  • How Mall of America could become ‘as toxic and uninhabitable as Chernobyl’ (MPR)
  • ‘Inferno’ brings insight and humanity to Ebola outbreak (Seattle Times)

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