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Biodefense Headlines – May 29, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
May 29, 2017
MERS Cornavirus for Biodefense Headlines of the Week

MERS Cornavirus for Biodefense Headlines of the WeekSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including how budget cuts might impact bioterrorism preparedness, operational research during Ebola outbreaks, and a look back at the devastation of the Spanish Flu.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • From EMS to NHS: Emergency management and health security (ASPR)
  • Trump’s proposed budget cuts trouble bioterrorism experts (NY Times)
  • World Bank says most nations not ready for pandemic (CIDRAP)
  • Disease experts reveal their biggest worries about the next pandemic (BI)
  • Could the latest Ebola outbreak help avert future epidemics? (PATH)
  • A strategic framework for emergency preparedness (WHO)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Report: CDC could do more to keep labs safe (USA Today)
  • From panic and neglect to investing in health security (World Bank)
  • The finish line in ending pandemics and the future of the WHO (Pandora Report)
  • Lab at Fort Detrick faces closing under proposed federal budget (FNP)
  • ASM summary on Trump Administration’s FY 2018 budget proposal (ASM)
  • ASM letter regarding appointment of USDA Chief Scientist (ASM)
  • House science panel joins Trump in questioning research overhead payments (Science)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Operational research during the Ebola emergency (EID)
  • Simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning (Phys.org)
  • Inhalable aerosol samplers with different filters for anthrax responses (T&F)
  • Glutathionylation of Y. pestis LcrV and its effects on plague pathogenesis (mBio)
  • Y. pestis YopK binding to the extracellular matrix adaptor protein matrilin-2 (I+I)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Antibiotics are failing against pneumonia, too (Vocativ)
  • Polio endgame gets complicated, and a vaccine runs short (STAT)
  • Plazomicin granted FDA breakthrough therapy designation (Globe Newswire)
  • Tackling a novel lethal virus: a focus on H7N9 vaccine development (T&F)
  • Clade-specific and broadly reactive live attenuated influenza vaccines (Virology)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Vets in Africa help prevent spread of Ebola and other zoonotic diseases (IAEA)
  • Zika studies uncover early spread, factors fueling Florida outbreak (CIDRAP)
  • How a usually harmless bacteria ended up killing 18 people in Wisconsin (Atlantic)
  • Hospital outbreak of MCR-1 Klebsiella reported in China (CIDRAP)
  • Candida auris: Emerging cause of hospital-acquired resistant infections (PLOS)
  • Crimean–Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Poland (VB&Z Diseases)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • New tech allows for rapid diagnosis of Ebola in DRoC (WHO)
  • Soluble needle arrays for delivery of influenza vaccines (Google Patents)
  • Metabiota looks to new markets for its epidemic monitoring toolkit (TechCrunch)
  • What Zika virus DNA tells scientists about its rapid spread (LA Times)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Congrats newest GMU Biodefense graduates (Pandora Report)
  • 17-year-old’s invention prevents spread of germs on planes (Teen Vogue)
  • How many of us has a forebear who died of Spanish flu? (Spectator)
  • The virus hunters (Undark)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Retro report: Politics and plagues (NY Times)
  • 100m dead: The deadliest disease in history (The Economist)
  • Doctors didn’t know how cholera spread until one genius drew a map (Motherboard)
  • The tragedy that killed a Stanley Cup (Ozy)

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