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Biodefense Headlines – Auditing the WHO Pandemic Flu Framework, Realities of Global Health Security

by Global Biodefense Staff
April 9, 2017
Health Security Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including a call to audit the WHO pandemic flu framework, use of chemical weapons in Syria, and a large trial of Ebola vaccine strategies.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • How DARPA is leading the debate on biosecurity and biosafety with genome editors (CW)
  • Advisory group supports industry demand for audit of WHO pandemic flu framework (IPW)
  • How should genome editing applications be assessed and regulated? (ReliaWire)
  • Coalition letter regarding FY 2017 appropriations (ASM)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • The big one is coming, and it’s going to be a flu pandemic (CNN)
  • The realities of global health security (Contagion Live)
  • Fogarty protects Americans by building pandemic response capacity (NIH)
  • Threat of new epidemic of infectious disease or bioterrorist act never far away (Stuff)
  • Pandemic response a cycle of ‘panic and neglect,’ says World Bank president (Devex)
  • How a novel disease threat brought EMS and public health together (EMS World)
  • Pandemic research project presents recommendations to European Commission (PW)
  • Podcast: Flu pandemic: how prepared are we? (Univ of Nottingham)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • The grim logic behind Syria’s chemical weapons attack (NY Times)
  • Syria may have used military-grade nerve agent in alleged attack (USA Today)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Large trial launches of different Ebola vaccine strategies (CIDRAP)
  • Ebola: The great ape gamble (Nature)
  • A history of sarin as a weapon (The Atlantic)
  • Bacteriophage T4 as a nanoparticle platform: construction of anthrax vaccine (Springer)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • What UPMC is doing to guard against a deadly ‘superbug’ (Trib Live)
  • Coronavirus HKU1 infections in Cleveland (Clinicians’ Biosecurity News)
  • Ten Saudi MERS cases linked to hospital outbreak (CIDRAP)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Battlefield pharma: portable on-demand manufacturing (Medicine Maker)
  • New technology could offer cheaper, faster food testing (MIT News)
  • Infectious disease transmission in fish, mammals has implications for humans (Phys.org)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders take on the Eight Ball (Pandora Report)
  • Smallpox vaccination: an early start of modern medicine in America (T&F)
  • The Silicon Valley of biodefense (Kansas State University)
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