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Biodefense Headlines – June 11, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
June 11, 2017
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See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including funding for biopreparedness (or not), bivalent anthrax-plague vaccine, and a look at how big data is transforming epidemics.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Cuts to US bioterror funds risk peril in event of attack (The Hill)
  • Francis Collins given official nod to continue as NIH director (CIDRAP)
  • After 15 years, deadly disease research lab nears approval in Boston (NEIDL)
  • Seventieth World Health Assembly update (WHO)
  • Cutting the NIH budget is bad for health and business (STAT)
  • Hearing notes: U.S. public health response to the Zika virus (Bifurcated Needle)
  • New science data-sharing rules are two scoops of disappointment (STAT)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Is Gotham ready for bioterror? (City Journal)
  • Five ways big data is transforming epidemics (Information Week)
  • Grant enables New York Medical College to combat bioterrorism (The Examiner)
  • Congress, learn from Zika and Ebola — Update US emergency fund (The Hill)
  • Mass dispensing exercise held to prepare for bioterrorism attack (LymeLine)
  • Center for bioterrorism and disaster response opens in Valhalla (Lohud)
  • UNMC’s new center to research biodefense, Ebola (KMTV)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Scientists find simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning (MNT)
  • Bivalent anthrax-plague vaccine (Frontiers in Immunology)
  • Hunting for Ebola and the outbreak in the DRC (Pandora Report)
  • Duration of neutralizing antibody persisting after childhood smallpox vaccination (NCBI)
  • VCIP135 dictates the duration of botulinum neurotoxin A intoxication (PNAS)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Clinical trials begin for two chikungunya vaccines (CIDRAP)
  • When do we stop vaccinating against an infectious disease? (The Conversation)
  • Study identifies an enzyme inhibitor to treat Gulf War illness symptoms (MNT)
  • Botched measles vaccination campaign left 15 children dead in South Sudan (STAT)
  • Polio outbreak in Syria poses vaccination dilemma for WHO (Reuters)
  • WHO revises essential drug list to battle antibiotic resistance (CIDRAP)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • New Mexico: Plague case in Santa Fe County man (NMHealth.org)
  • South Korea to raise bird flu alert to maximum (Reuters)
  • Polio outbreak is reported in Syria, WHO says (STAT News)
  • Pig-related infections spread in Denmark, may be in U.S. too (The Fern)
  • Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – China (WHO)
  • Whooping cough outbreak hits southern Alberta (CBC News)
  • Saudi Arabia probing several hospital MERS clusters in Riyadh (CIDRAP)
  • Yemen cholera cases pass the 100,000 mark: WHO (Reuters)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Omnibus solicitation for Small Business Technology Transfer grants (NIH)
  • Fear of the flu: Assumptions about media effects in the 2009 pandemic (SAGE)
  • Pandemic risk assessment of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia (ScienceDirect)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Spotlight on bioterrorism expert FBI Supervisory Special Agent Edward You (PR)
  • More than a name change: AIDS.gov becomes HIV.gov (HHS)
  • FBI raids offices of lab that pays doctors to promote genetic tests (STAT)
  • Judge trashes bioterrorism charge in bite case (Wisconsin Gazette)

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