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Biodefense Headlines – July 30, 2017 

by Global Biodefense Staff
July 30, 2017
Health Security & Biodefense Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including gaps in understanding post-Ebola syndrome, emergency preparedness for laboratory personnel, and rapid detection technologies for food safety. 

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Pediatrics and public health: Working together to prepare for emergencies (CDC) 
  • Biological engagement programs: Reducing threats, strengthening security (FiPH) 
  • Emergency preparedness for laboratory personnel (CDC) 

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • US defense agencies grapple with gene drives (Nature) 
  • The reality of Trump’s R&D cuts  (Pandora Report) 
  • NJ accepts rights for people in quarantine to end Ebola suit (NY Times) 
  • Global catastrophic biological risks: Toward a working definition (JHSPH CHS) 
  • ‘Patients who should live are dying’: Greece’s public health meltdown (Guardian)

SELECT AGENTS 

  • SERS-based microdroplet assay for F1 antigens in Yersinia pestis (ACS) 
  • Comparing new-gen candidate vaccines against human orthopoxvirus (NCBI) 
  • Seroprevalence of F. tularensis among farmers and vets in Georgia (ProQuest) 
  • Tularemia: Complement C3 as a prompt for human macrophage death (ASM) 
  • Interdisciplinarity and environmental biology of anthrax (bioRxiv) 
  • Post-Ebola syndrome is something else to keep you up at night (ARS Technica) 
  • Antibody response differentially influenced by PLGA-PAD4 particles (Neoscriber) 
  • Differential microRNA analyses of B. pseudomallei and F. tularensis (Hindawi) 
  • Anion inhibitors of the β-carbonic anhydrase of Francisella tularensis (SD) 
  • Host factors involved in Ebola virus replication (Springer) 

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Temporary total depletion of US licensed yellow fever vaccine (CDC) 
  • Vaccine design shows promise against African Horse Sickness Virus (BBSRC) 
  • Why a biodefense firm is going on a spending spree (WaPo) 
  • J&J inks 879M vaccine deal with Bavarian Nordic (BioPharma Dive) 
  • Emergent Biosolutions goes on a spending spree (Pandora Report) 

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Dengue fever cases top 100,000 in Sri Lanka’s outbreak (NPR) 
  • Case of Zika virus, likely spread by mosquito, is reported in Texas (NY Times) 
  • Rinderpest: How to tackle one of Africa’s goat plague (The Economist) 
  • Hantavirus infection confirmed; mice can contaminate food (FSN) 

RESEARCH + TECH

  • Disease sleuths unmask deadly encephalitis culprit (Science) 
  • Test-tube immune systems can speed vaccine development (VOA) 
  • Biosensors: Migrating from clinical to environmental industries (S Scholar) 
  • Directed evolution as a countermeasure to bioterrorism attacks (eJBio) 
  • Rapid sequencing of causative agents of bacteremia (bioRxiv) 

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Rapid detection for food safety: Coverage from the Biodefense World Summit (Contagions) 
  • Scientists, stop thinking explaining science will fix things (Slate) 
  • Texas actress gets 18 years for mailing ricin to Obama (USA Today) 

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Viral epidemics in Latin America from the 16th to 19th Centuries (Springer) 
  • Comparative scaffolding and of ancient plague bacterial genomes (MGEN) 
  • Farming, Famine and Plague – The Dance of Death (Springer) 

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