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Biodefense Headlines – November 12, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
November 12, 2017
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See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including Legionnaires’ cases at Disneyland, slowing agriculture antibiotic abuse, and a pathway to a universal flu vaccine.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • US, world still not ready for another flu pandemic (Global Health NOW)
  • What should the US national biodefense strategy look like? (BOTAS)
  • Is China ground zero for a future pandemic? (Smithsonian Institute)
  • Frameworks for preventing, detecting, and controlling zoonotic diseases (EID)
  • Grant helps Iowa State pursue biosecurity in wake of 2015 bird flu (The Gazette)
  • Biopreparedness and biosecurity with Gigi Kwik Gronvall (ASM)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Top 5 challenges in emergency preparedness: An island perspective (Pandora Report)
  • Groups of concern: Constructing and containing citizens in synthetic biology (SAGE)
  • Under Trump, biologists fear political risks of controversial research (MIT TechRev)
  • Lamar Smith of House science panel leaves a controversial legacy (Science)
  • Health security: The global context (ETH Zurich)
  • How to handle DURC experiments in the 21st Century (Lab Equipment)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • No excuses, people: get the new shingles vaccine (NY Times)
  • Fighting antimicrobial resistance on all fronts (The Lancet)
  • WHO is urging agribusiness to stop using antibiotics on healthy animals (Fortune)
  • Flu vaccine “factories” create errors that reduce protection (SciAm)
  • Takeda takes on Sanofi with new global dengue vaccine data (Reuters)
  • Experts outline pathway to a universal influenza vaccine (NIH)
  • New deal would keep Pentagon out of product approvals (Axios)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Build the Ebola database in Africa (Nature)
  • Characterization of membrane proteins from F. tularensis strains (ASM)
  • Uganda fights Marburg outbreak while hosting high-level GHSA summit (OutObvs)
  • The evolution of Ebola zoonotic cycles (Contagions Blog)
  • Mechanisms of resistance to folate pathway inhibitors in B. pseudomallei (ASM)
  • Personal Protective Equipment strikethrough: risk or rhetoric? (ICT)
  • Enhancing surveillance and diagnostics in Anthrax-endemic countries (CDC)
  • Petrobactin exported from B. anthracis by RND-type exporter ApeX (ASM)
  • NBAC: A fortress of research (Hutch News)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Disneyland shuts down 2 cooling towers after Legionnaires’ disease cases (LA Times)
  • Death toll from Legionnaires’ disease in Lisbon hospital up to four (Reuters)
  • Mumps makes a comeback, even among the vaccinated (NY Times)
  • Here’s why the 2017 flu season was so bad (The Conversation)
  • Surveillance for waterborne disease outbreaks in U.S. drinking water (CDC)
  • Bulgaria reports two more outbreaks of virulent bird flu (Reuters)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Asia is cradle of almost every cholera epidemic, genome studies show (Science)
  • To save a young woman besieged by superbugs, scientists hunt a killer (STAT)
  • New evidence that dengue antibodies trigger life-threatening infections (Science)
  • Multiplex real-time PCR assay for detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (BMC)
  • Regulatory elements that influence antibiotic production in gram-neg bacteria (ASM)
  • Targeting a single protein might treat a broad range of viruses (Phys.org)
  • Giving molecular combing the golden coat it deserves (Labiotech)
  • El Niño southern oscillation and influenza pandemic timing (Frontiers in PH)
  • ‘Null’ research findings aren’t empty of meaning. Let’s publish them (STAT)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Center for Health Security – ELBI Fellowship application now open (PR)
  • 6 medical innovations that moved from the battlefield to mainstream (STAT)

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