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Biodefense Headlines – May 7, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
May 7, 2017
GBD Biodefense Headlines

GBD Biodefense HeadlinesSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including bioterrorism forensics, the federal budget for readiness and response, and pandemic risk factors.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • ‘You can’t bomb Ebola’: how nations should respond to the next pandemic (TIME)
  • Worse than Ebola: U.S. not preparing for the next bio-threat (NBC News)
  • If a pandemic hits, the U.S. isn’t ready (US News)
  • Baltimore practices for widespread medical emergency in drill (CBS)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • The dark underbelly of hospital reporting (Contagion Live)
  • How the House health care bill undercuts bioterror and pandemic defenses (BOTAS)
  • To quarantine or not to quarantine? (HSPH)
  • CDC faces budget loss of hundreds of millions after AHCA passes House (STAT)
  • US budget plan includes support for readiness, research, response (CIDRAP)
  • Remarks by Jeff Schlegelmilch to the Blue Ribbon Study Panel (NCDP)
  • G20: Can the world’s richest economies innovate for global health? (Devex)
  • Public policy brief: omnibus funding bill agreed to (ASM)
  • As Zika season nears, states brace for an end to CDC funding (Frontline)
  • Populism, politics and measles (NY Times)

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  • International probe underway to lay blame for sarin attack (ABC News)
  • Science and clarity in the chemical fog of war (War on the Rocks)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Forensic approaches to detect possible agents of bioterror (PubMed)
  • Anthrax immune globulin iv recipients during the 2009-10 anthrax outbreak (ATS)
  • Responses of black-tailed prairie dogs oral plague 2-dose vaccine (Wildlife Disease)
  • Study supports inclusion of anthrax immunoglobulin in Strategic National Stockpile (ATS)
  • Dynamics of F1 antibody responses to Y. pestis infection in Rhombomys opimus (PubMed)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Host-oriented as an innovative countermeasure (HDIAC)
  • Gates Foundation supports Achaogen’s antibacterial platform with 20.5M (GEN)
  • Surveillance for Guillain-Barré syndrome after flu vaccination in Medicare population (SD)
  • A new hope: vaccine supply chains get more attention (Forbes)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Liberia illness cluster grows as officials await toxicology results (CIDRAP)
  • Unexplained cluster of deaths – Liberia (WHO)
  • Leaked document says Puerto Rico underreporting Zika complications (CIDRAP)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Clues to Zika damage might lie in cases of twins (NY Times)
  • White paper outlines pandemic risk factors (Bovine Veterinarian)

SPECIAL INTEREST + HISTORICAL

  • Summer biodefense workshop discount extended (George Mason University)
  • Spotlight on the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID)
  • Hopkins consolidates care for patients with infectious diseases in new center (Baltimore Sun)
  • Bozeman doctor spins yarn of historic pandemic (Great Falls Tribune)
  • Harvard doctor’s million-dollar idea could prevent a pandemic (Futurism)

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