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    Biodefense Headlines – August 27, 2017

    By Global Biodefense StaffAugust 27, 2017
    Biodefense Headlines of the Week
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    See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including high disability rate in Ebola survivors, flu-predicting wearables, and preparing for cyberattacks during a public health crisis.

    BIOPREPAREDNESS

    • Building airborne isolation units during emergent times (Contagion Live)
    • We’re not prepared for the next public health emergency (The Hill)
    • Chemical-biological defense S&T for homeland security (NDIA)
    • How to prepare for cyberattacks that strike during a public health crisis (HITN)
    • Health Care Coalition Influenza Pandemic Checklist (ASPR TRACIE)
    • Health Care Coalition Preparedness Plan (ASPR TRACIE)
    • Alabama sets up new network for highly infectious diseases (AL.com)
    • IAEA brings together experts from Africa to increase biopreparedness (IAEA)

    POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

    • Divergent policy responses to increasing vaccine skepticism in Europe (Lancet)
    • One Health: Addressing zoonotic public health threats (WHO)
    • Biosecurity and synthetic biology: it is time to get serious (PLOS)
    • Breaking the chain of zoonoses through biosecurity in livestock (Science Direct)

    SELECT AGENTS

    • Study finds high disability rate in Ebola survivors (CIDRAP)
    • DNA detectives crack the case on biothreat look-alikes (Phys.org)
    • Crooks dig up Sierra Leone’s ‘Ebola cemetery’ (Daily Beast)

    MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

    • Should you finish the course of antibiotics? Yes – until further notice (CDDEP)
    • Two-dose cholera vaccination less effective for younger children (Healio)
    • Rural-urban gap in some vaccination rates leaves health officials puzzled (STAT)
    • Viruslike nanoparticles kill drug-resistant bacteria (C&EN)

    OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

    • India swine flu death toll rises above 1,000 this year (BBC)
    • Hunting a killer: Sex, drugs and the return of syphilis (NY Times)
    • Philippines deploys troops to a 2nd province to fight bird flu (Reuters)
    • Fatal pneumonic tularemia associated with dog exposure in Arizona (CDC MMWR)
    • Local transmission of chikungunya has been confirmed in southern France (WHO)
    • Zika pandemic online trends, incidence and health risk communication (BMJ)
    • France reports local chikungunya cluster (CIDRAP)

    RESEARCH + TECH

    • New wearable predicts if you’re getting flu (Digital Journal)
    • Survival of soil organisms is a wake-up call for biosecurity (Science Daily)
    • NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers (Science Blogs)
    • Low-pathogenic avian influenza virus enhanced by ubiquitin-specific protease 18 (NCBI)
    • Risk of Zika-related microcephaly: stable or variable? (The Lancet)
    • Cyborg bacteria turns bacteria into useful compounds (Chem.info)

    SPECIAL INTEREST

    • GMU Biodefense Graduate Programs & Information Sessions (Pandora Report)
    • Five myths about gene editing (Washington Post)
    • An interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. on vaccines (STAT)
    • Antibodies are not magic bullets – more like sticky drunkards (The Conversation)
    • Vaccination and immunization: can they be taught to children? (Science Direct)
    • Speaking with: John Gerrard on preventing infectious diseases (The Conversation)

    HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

    • This genetic defect could be why Typhoid Mary never got typhoid fever (Invisiverse)
    • Bhutan:The story of how a small mountain kingdom eliminated measles (WHO)
    • A killer nailed: Reconstruction of Maldives’ triumph over measles (WHO)
    • Beaugency lymph in the evolutionary path of ancient smallpox vaccines (SD)
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