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    Biodefense Headlines – May 14, 2017

    By Global Biodefense StaffMay 14, 2017
    Biodefense - Bioterrorism News
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    Biodefense - Bioterrorism NewsSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the depleted yellow fever vaccine supply, viability of ‘arboterrorism’, and the return of Ebola.

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • Ebola returns in Congo, a test of ‘next time’ (Foreign Policy)
    • Strength in numbers: community preparedness partnerships (ASPR)
    • Growing threat of pandemics: enhancing global biosecurity (Pandora Report)
    • Are we prepared to help low-resource populations mitigate a severe pandemic? (UN)
    • Sacred Heart’s new infectious disease unit ready to handle Ebola (Spokesman-Review)
    • Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework Q&A (WHO)

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • Self-regulation of science: what can we still learn from Asilomar? (Muse)
    • CRISPR makes it clear: The US needs a biology strategy, and fast (Wired)
    • Arboterrorism: Doubtful delusion or deadly danger (JoB&B)
    • ASM comments on draft Diagnostic Accuracy and Innovation Act (DAIA)
    • Strategies for keeping you and your patients infection-free (JEMS)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Ebola returns, and Central Africa’s virus hunters are ready (Wired)
    • One shot: Chimerix still betting on drug to treat smallpox (WRAL TechWire)
    • Botulinum neurotoxin gold nanodendrites/chitosan immunosensor (MDPI)
    • Characterization of pathogenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei K9243 (DTIC)
    • Aptamer scaffold biosensors for detection of botulism and ricin (Springer)
    • Improved antibody-based ricin neutralization by affinity maturation (PubMed)
    • Characterization of the GTP sensing protein, CodY of B. anthracis (PubMed)
    • Metal Ions effectively ablate the action of Botulinum neurotoxin A (JACS)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • CDC working to maintain yellow fever vaccine supply (OH&S)
    • Zika virus-like particle (VLP) based vaccine (PLOS)
    • Harnessing local immunity for an effective universal swine flu vaccine (MDPI)
    • Broad patent granted for ENABL adjuvant technology (ABC25)
    • Emergent Biosolutions moves things around, still sees growth (Motley Fool)
    • Bell’s palsy and influenza(H1N1)pdm09 containing vaccines (PLOS)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo (WHO)
    • Meningitis suspected in Liberia’s mystery illness outbreak (CIDRAP)
    • Another measles outbreak that didn’t have to happen (Washington Post)
    • MERS study indicates mild cases might be missed (CIDRAP)

    RESEARCH & TECH

    • Now that we can read genomes, can we write them? (The Atlantic)
    • A new biosurveillance method based on convex hulls (EMR-IBS)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • Doctor, companies sentenced for misuse of vaccine research grant money (WBTW)
    • Frontline facilities – highly pathogenic infectious disease exercise planning (ASPR)
    • Course: Isolation and quarantine for rural communities (RDPC)
    • Pandemic summer workshop sneak peek (Pandora Report)

    HISTORICAL

    • Pregnancy, ‘coffin birth’, and the Black Death (Contagions Blog)
    • Plague bug may have lurked in medieval England between outbreaks (EOS)
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