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Biodefense Headlines – July 23, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 23, 2017
Bioweapons and Biodefense News Headlines

Bioweapons and Biodefense News HeadlinesSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including anthrax countermeasure distribution planning, improving vaccine trials during outbreaks, and the future of the GHSA and biodefense.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing for anthrax (NACCHO)
  • WHO warns of cholera risk at annual haj, praises Saudi preparedness (Reuters)
  • Volatile, uncertain, and complex – How agencies handle CBRNE threats (FNR)
  • Can the DRC stop the next Ebola outbreak? (Modern Diplomacy)
  • First TrainSafe class focuses on biosafety measures for lab workers (SR)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • White House developing comprehensive biosecurity strategy: official (Reuters)
  • The future of the GHSA and American biodefense (Pandora Report)
  • ASM thanks House Appropriations Subcommittee for NIH funding (ASM)
  • Trump’s R&D cuts aren’t just cruel, they increase the risk of bioterrorism (Wired)

SELECT AGENTS

  • The case of the reconstituted horsepox and other dual-use adventures (PR)
  • Labmade smallpox is possible, study shows (Science)
  • High-level lab in Winnipeg for studying dangerous pathogens to be beefed up (CTV)
  • Antibody response differentially influenced by PLGA-PAD4 characteristics (IJI)
  • Characterization of persistent asymptomatic Ebola in rhesus monkeys (Nature)
  • Ebola aftermath: Restoring trust in hospitals in Guinea (State Dept)
  • Patient with Lassa fever offers clues to virus (MedPage Today)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Why a biodefense firm is going on a spending spree (WaPo)
  • Improving vaccine trials in infectious disease emergencies (Science)
  • New method can stop malaria spread — even after it’s in the body (Invisiverse)
  • Randomized controlled trials and changing public health practice (BMC)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Cholera is slaughtering Yemen and we’re letting it happen (Fortune)
  • Diagnostic delays in 537 cases of MERS-CoV infection in Saudi Arabia (IJID)
  • MERS super spreader analysis points to infection control role (CIDRAP)
  • Assay discriminates Zika virus infection from other flaviviruses (PNAS)
  • New findings could allow scientists to better predict flu pandemics (American Lab)
  • Cholera kills four in Kenyan capital since May, government shuts hotels (Reuters)
  • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have long resided on ready-to-eat foods (IDA)

RESEARCH + TECH

  • Could cows be the vaccine factories of the future? (STAT)
  • How can social media be used to detect the next pandemic? (Imperial College)
  • Ultrasensitive DNA quantification by light scattering (Phys.org)
  • Beyond the needle: trying to make vaccines more comfy and convenient (NPR)
  • Innovative nanosensor for disease diagnosis (Science Daily)
  • Broad jump-starts CRISPR patent pool (C&EN)
  • An all-Canadian collaborative synthetic biology project (PLOS SynBio)
  • Integration of immunosensors based on magnetic nanoparticles (SD)
  • Making lab equipment on the cheap (Science Daily)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • How a wildlife biologist became a plague-chaser in the American Southwest (STAT)
  • Machine learning helps find mysterious source of a global illness (Digital Journal)
  • Q&A: Ethics in public health surveillance (WHO)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Contagions sessions at the International Congress for Medieval Studies (Contagions)
  • How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language (The Conversation)
  • Forgotten disease: Illnesses transformed in Chinese medicine (Google Books)
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