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Biodefense Headlines – July 16, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 16, 2017
Health Security Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the NIH smallpox panel report, closing in on a universal flu vaccine, and the threat of synthetic bioweapons.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • House approves amendment that could put brakes on NBACC closing (FNP)
  • Panel’s smallpox sample probe yields policy recommendations, questions (CIDRAP)
  • Md. Dems resist Trump administration plan to close chemical, biological labs (BSun)
  • Why the world should fear North Korea’s biological weapons (National Interest)
  • Congress, don’t roll back drug contamination protections (The Hill)
  • N Korea may have one of world’s largest bio and chem weapon stockpiles (SOFPREP)
  • Smallpox kerfuffle reveals biosecurity problems (The Scientist)
  • Biosecurity stakeholders offer recommendations for biodefense strategy (CHS)
  • One man’s plan to make sure gene editing doesn’t go haywire (The Atlantic)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Spillover beasts: Which animals pose the biggest viral risk? (NPR)
  • The Pentagon ponders the threat of synthetic bioweapons (Wired)
  • Four great ways for local public health to increase national health security (PHE.gov)
  • EMS combatting infectious disease threats with knowledge and best practices (ASPR)
  • We must do more to protect our farms from terror threats (Des Moines Register)
  • Trump appoints a key bioterrorism position but still leaves dozens open (Pandora Rpt)

SELECT AGENTS

  • The plague is back, this time in New Mexico (NPR)
  • Botulism in Italy, 1986 to 2015 (Eurosurveillance)
  • Metal ions effectively ablate the action of botulinum neurotoxin A (JACKS)
  • How an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was contained (Slate)
  • Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks (The Conversation)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • This new drug could help the U.S. survive a nuclear meltdown (MarketWatch)
  • Sanofi to buy vaccines biotech group Protein Sciences (Reuters)
  • Emergent BioSolutions buys smallpox vaccine assets from Sanofi in 125M deal (Biospace)
  • Closing in on a universal flu vaccine (Horizon EU)
  • Gonorrhea is excellent at resisting antibiotics (NPR)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Measles ‘tragedy’ kills 35 across Europe (BBC)
  • How to stop the world’s worst Cholera outbreak (NPR)
  • CCHF in Spain: Geographic dynamics, nosocomial spread (Clinicians’ Biosecurity)
  • How did Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever pop up in Spain? (NPR)

RESEARCH + TECH

  • Cholera hitches a ride on the backs of soft-shell turtles (NPR)
  • Consequence of prioritizing pathogens for global antibiotic research (The Lancet)
  • Flipping the switch on controlling disease-carrying insects (Biomedical Beat)
  • Zika enhancement: A reality check (The Lancet)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories (Conversation)
  • The kombucha craze steps into art and the science of the microbiome (Labiotech)
  • Laboratory twinning builds strong lab systems and relationships (APHL)
  • The Microbial Anthropocene (Contagions Blog)
  • Pentagon secretly tested chemical weapons on US troops. Vets demand to know the cost (McClatchy)

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