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Biodefense Headlines – August 20, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
August 20, 2017
Health Security Headlines from Global Biodefense

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including clinical trials of anthrax treatments, revisiting NIH biosafety guidelines, and a tour of Dugway Proving Ground.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Revisit NIH biosafety guidelines (Science)
  • How the government will pay companies to develop biodefense products (RAPS)
  • A Global Catastrophic Biologic Risk by any other name would smell as sweet (Contagion)
  • Planning biodefense: security and the competitive city (ResearchGate)
  • Psych evals for the U.S. Army Biological Personnel Reliability Program (De Gruyter)

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Why should we evaluate global pandemic preparedness? (Contagion)
  • Preparing for the future of disaster health volunteerism (NAP)
  • We’re not close to being prepared for the next pandemic, says this doctor (PBS)
  • A Swedish forum for biopreparedness diagnostics (MAL)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Preclinical trials testing anti-toxin therapies for B. anthracis infection (PubMed)
  • Bacillus spp. cells captured selectively by phages and identified by SERS (MDPI)
  • Bubonic plague in Arizona: Fleas found carrying the infectious disease (USA Today)
  • Hippos, anthrax and hunger make a deadly mix (NPR)
  • Role of food insecurity in outbreak of anthrax infections (EID)
  • A bivalent anthrax–plague vaccine (Frontiers in Immunology)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Addressing superbug resistance with phage therapy (Medical Xpress)
  • Why it’s time for a rethink on flu vaccination (The Conversation)
  • Here’s the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm (Science)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Zika has all but disappeared in the Americas. Why? (Science)
  • How Yemen’s cholera outbreak spread to a half-million people (STAT)
  • MRSA over 3 decades: A pathogen with ‘devastating complications’ (Healio)
  • Typhus making a comeback in Texas (My San Antonio)
  • Fatal H7N9 case reported in China (CIDRAP)

RESEARCH + TECH

  • Gene editing could stop cancer, diabetes and bioterrorism (Newsweek)
  • At CRISPRcon, debating the promise and perils of gene editing (GEN)
  • Killing bacteria by hacking plastics with silver and electricity (Lab Equipment)
  • Clip-on laboratories turning smartphones into medical test units (ABC AU)
  • Biohackers encoded malware in a strand of DNA (Wired)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Inside the Dugway Proving Ground (The Atlantic)
  • The Weaponizing of Biology: Bioterrorism, Biocrime and Biohacking (Google)
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