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Biodefense Headlines – July 2, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 2, 2017
Biodefense and Health Security Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including a pandemic bond fund, Europe’s AMR action plan, and using drones to deliver medical supplies. 

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • World Bank launches ‘pandemic bond’ to tackle major outbreaks (Reuters)
  • Preventing pandemics and the necessity of funding prevention (Pandora Report)
  • US retreats from its lead on epidemic preparedness (Yale Global)
  • More lawmakers want the Army to hold a hearing on Zika vaccine pricing (STAT)
  • WHO spends more on travel than on key diseases. That’s actually okay. (WaPo)
  • Lessons from Zika and Ebola: Global health is a defense issue (Geopolitical Monitor)
  • Bioviolence: A very brief history (Bifurcated Needle)
  • Europe announces new action plan on AMR (CIDRAP)

SELECT AGENTS

  • How to treat Ebola virus infections? A lesson from the field (Virology)
  • Ebola aftermath: Restoring trust in hospitals in Guinea (USAID)
  • VCIP135 dictates duration of botulinum neurotoxin A intoxication (PNAS)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Cholera vaccine faces major test in war-torn Yemen (Science)
  • Antiviral inhibits epidemic SARS, MERS and animal coronaviruses (Medical Xpress)
  • CDC: 2016-17 flu season was long, vaccine protection fairly low (CIDRAP)
  • MerLion, Dstl score DTRA grant to support biothreat antibiotic development (GEN)
  • Clinical laboratory values as early indicators of Ebola primate infection (EID)
  • The next generation of flu vaccines? Just peel-and-stick (LabRoots)
  • Stability of hemagglutinin: toward a universal influenza vaccine (BDJN)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Yemen’s cholera outbreak grows by 5,000 cases per day (CIDRAP)
  • India: 8,648 swine flu cases and 345 deaths reported (Doctor NDTV)
  • How war brought cholera and polio back to the Middle East (WaPo)
  • Mutant strains of polio vaccine now cause more paralysis than wild polio (NPR)
  • Influenza D in animal species in Guangdong Province, Southern China (CDC)
  • Experts find new strain of cholera that spreads faster (Deccan Chronicle)
  • A new bat-HKU2–like coronavirus in swine, China, 2017 (Avian Flu)

RESEARCH + TECH

  • We should use drones to deliver medicine—here’s why (MIT Tech Review)
  • UK MOD signs into service Thales biological surveillance solution (CBRNe World)
  • Researchers develop yeast-based tool for worldwide pathogen detection (Phys.org)
  • Meta-analysis shows rise in drug-resistant bacteria at the Hajj (CIDRAP)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Pandemics, Bioterrorism, & Global Health Security instructor spotlight (GMU)
  • New Ebola exhibit captures the intensity of the response to the crisis (STAT)
  • He had fever, night sweats, joint pain: Food poisoning’s other symptoms (WaPo)

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