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Biodefense Headlines – November 19, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
November 19, 2017
Health Security and Biodefense Headlines

Health Security and Biodefense HeadlinesSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pre-positioning emergency medical countermeasures, predictive models for Zika virus, and how Madagascar took control of its plague outbreak.

  • Mobile stand-off surveillance against biowarfare and bioterrorism agents (SiA)
  • Ebola drill prepares hospital for infectious patients (Seattle Times)
  • Pre-positioning pharmaceuticals for anthrax post-exposure prophylaxis (HealthSec)
  • U.S. remains unprepared for agricultural disease outbreaks (Emer Mgmt)
  • Risk analysis tools for differentiating unnatural from natural epidemics (AMSUS)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Army to provide benefits for thousands of veterans who were test subjects (NPR)
  • Next Generation Global Health Security Network reflections (Pandora Report)
  • The next HHS secretary must redefine ‘affordable’ health care (STAT)
  • Russia vetoes U.N. effort investigating Syrian chemical weapons attacks (FP)
  • Rethinking the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention? (HealthSec)
  • Letter opposing provisions in the tax cuts and jobs act (ASM)
  • Congress pushes for predictive models for Zika and other outbreaks (Contagion)
  • Progress and opportunities for strengthening global health security (CDC EID)
  • As eradication of polio nears, a new crisis for global health looms (STAT)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Look to pharmacists to fight antibiotic resistance, too (Morning Consult)
  • Swabbing our way to a solution for antibiotic resistance (Contagion)
  • New avian flu outbreaks noted as USDA OK’s DNA poultry vaccine (CIDRAP)
  • Pentagon wants to approve drugs for the battlefield. Why that’s dangerous (STAT)
  • FD.A. speeds review of gene therapies, vowing to target rogue clinics (NY Times)
  • Annual influenza vaccination does not prevent natural immunity (EurekAlert)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Merck will miss long-promised target for filing Ebola vaccine license (STAT)
  • Multiplex Endopep-MS assay for detection of botulinum toxins A, B and E (Nature)
  • Ebola virus disease: an update on post-exposure prophylaxis (The Lancet)
  • Poxviruses: Slipping and sliding through transcription and translation (PLOS)
  • Evaluation of gamma-radiation inactivation of Bacillus anthracis (Springer)
  • Direct central nervous system effects of botulinum neurotoxin (PubMed)
  • Reports detail Ebola post-exposure guidance, fatality risk (CIDRAP)
  • Biomarkers that indicate likelihood of survival in Ebola patients identified (Scicasts)
  • Diagnosis of Acute Q Fever C. burnetii RT-PCR detection (EBSCO)
  • Foodborne botulism case report: I only had nacho cheese (Cureus)
  • Proteomic signatures differentiating B. anthracis Sterne sporulation on soil (RSC)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Bird flu is spreading in Asia, experts (quietly) warn (NY Times)
  • Legionella in Disney: Growing difficulties of Legionnaires’ disease prevention (Contagion)
  • S. Korea confirms H5N6 bird flu at duck farm, raises bird flu alert level (Reuters)
  • How Madagascar took control of its bubonic plague outbreak (NPR)
  • Rare strain of gonorrhea found in Canada, compounding fears of drug resistance (STAT)
  • Pathogen genomic surveillance of emerging viral agents in China (SciEngine)
  • Monkeypox on the rise: How worried should we be? (NPR)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Feasibility of viral respiratory disease surveillance in combat theater (NCBI)
  • Webcast of ISSR Session on CRISPR/Cas and Human Germline Gene Editing (NatAcad)
  • Stanford trained AI to diagnose pneumonia better than a radiologist in two months (Quartz)
  • Model sheds new light on pathogen cooperation (Phys.org)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Remembering the 1918 influenza pandemic (PubMed.gov)
  • Bacterial art starts a debate on money and international borders (Labiotech)

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