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Biodefense Headlines – October 29, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
October 29, 2017
Health Security Headlines

Health Security HeadlinesSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic prediction, select agent detection, and the backstories on how leading diseases got their names.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Pandemic countermeasures risk communications exercise scenario (JHSPH CHS)
  • Is it possible to predict the next pandemic? (The Atlantic)
  • Rehearsing for a pandemic that will come ‘sooner than we expect’ (WaPo)
  • US roadmap for international action to prevent next pandemic (PATH)
  • HHS’s preparedness for and response to the 2017 hurricane season (BN)
  • Strengthening the disaster resilience of academic biomedical research (NAP)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • ASM urges supplemental public health emergency funding (ASM)
  • How a blunder over Robert Mugabe has cost the WHO goodwill it needs (STAT)
  • Ethical issues in national pandemic influenza plans (Euro J of Pub Health)
  • Global Health Security – WHO & PATH reports and GHSA Meeting (PR)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Violence in Syria reportedly destroys cold room and vaccines (UNICEF)
  • Building the antibiotic pipeline for resistant pathogens (Battelle)
  • Andy Serkis’s Breathe is a haunting reminder of the pre-vaccine era (Conversation)
  • The antibiotic resistance crisis resolved by bacteriophages (Reflections on IPC)
  • Structural explanation for low effectiveness of influenza H3N2 vaccine (PLOS)
  • CDC panel recommends a new shingles vaccine (NY Times)
  • Roche, Warp Drive form antibiotics pact (C&EN)
  • Typhoid vaccine set to have ‘huge impact’ (BBC)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Mapping neutralizing epitope clusters on RiVax (ASM)
  • Synthesizing biological threats – A small leap from horsepox to smallpox (Contagion)
  • Screening of full human anthrax LF neutralizing antibody in transgenic mice (NCBI)
  • LCMS detection of ricin in forensically relevant samples (Toxicon)
  • Fast on-site visual detection of active ricin (Analytical Chemistry)
  • Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin negatively modulates ILC3 function (PLOS)
  • A monoclonal–monoclonal antibody based capture ELISA for abrin (Toxins)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • More than 1,300 suspected plague cases reported in Madagascar (CIDRAP)
  • Puerto Rico textbook example of how waterborne disease outbreaks spread (Quartz)
  • Plague kills 124 in Madagascar, cities most affected – report (Reuters)
  • Global measles deaths fall, but elimination goals far off (Reuters)
  • Aid group says Madagascar plague outbreak yet to reach peak (ABC News)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Superbug ‘sleuthing’ finds secret outbreaks (BBC)
  • Point-of-care testing for influenza (ASM)
  • $1.4 million in grants announced to fight disease in bats (Seattle Times)
  • Dynamic decision process for evaluating pandemic flu intervention strategies (VHJ)
  • ‘Incredible’ editing of life’s building blocks (BBC)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

  • Why do we call it that? Backstories of seven disease names (STAT)
  • Viking trade in red squirrels may have spread leprosy (BBC)
  • Historical context of the origins of the Biological Weapons Convention (UCL)
  • From vomiting kids to evil spirits—how infamous diseases got their names (Science)

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