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Biodefense Headlines – August 27, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
August 27, 2017
Biodefense Headlines of the Week

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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