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Biodefense Headlines – December 17, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
December 17, 2017
Biological Defense Headlines of the Week

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including banned words at the CDC, the inadequacies of the biosecurity infrastructure, and a jump in U.S. flu activity.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Where would pandemic flu wreak the most havoc? (Smithsonian)
  • Pandemic flu would hit an uneven playing field (Global Health Now)
  • Defense of animal agriculture bipartisan report (Blue Ribbon Biodefense Panel)
  • Pandemic preparedness, global risk, and sovereign science (SAGE)
  • U.S. biosecurity infrastructure considered “inadequate” (Pork Business)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Why the CDC’s “7 banned words” is worse than you think (Aetiology)
  • Report of CDC policy draws outrage (STAT)
  • Biodefense Policy Landscape Analysis Tool (PNNL)
  • Joint NGO statement to the BWC Meeting of States Parties (The Trench)
  • JHSPH CHS delivers NGO statement at 2017 meeting of states parties (CHS)
  • President signs defense bill that seeks to protect Detrick lab (FNP)
  • Ebola victims sue Sierra Leone government over mismanaged funds (Reuters)
  • Veterinarians need loan forgiveness program (The Hill)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Philippines, scientists grapple with Dengvaxia fallout (CIDRAP)
  • Adjuvanted influenza vaccines (Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics)
  • Sanofi scandal in the Philippines could spread dangerous mistrust of vaccines (STAT)
  • Reprogramming bacteria instead of killing them could be answer to AMR (Conversation)

SELECT AGENTS

  • The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge (Science Direct)
  • Human cutaneous anthrax with massive tissue damage, severe edema (IJoD)
  • Forty years later, Ebola survivors are still making antibodies to the lethal virus (Science)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • H5N6 avian flu reassortant confirmed in Dutch outbreak (CIDRAP)
  • A possible alternative route for MERS (Nature MidEast)
  • US flu activity jumps as new variant H3N2 case confirmed (CIDRAP)
  • 10 disease outbreaks from 2017 that everyone should know about (Buzzfeed)
  • Virome project aims to outfox pandemics with global virus atlas (GenomeWeb)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • The challenge of postoperative infections and a possible solution (Contagion)
  • Testing of ruggedized antibodies within a lateral flow immunoassay (DTIC)
  • Biodosimetry for medical management of radiological emergencies (PR)
  • DARPA seeks ‘smart plants’ to protect soldiers (Defense Systems)
  • A little black box for detecting and tracking outbreaks (WHO)
  • Combining participatory influenza surveillance with modeling and forecasting (JMIR)
  • Evolution-informed forecasting of seasonal influenza A (H3N2) (STM)
  • The role of parainfluenza viruses in severe respiratory infections (CBN)
  • Improving treatment of monkeypox patients in low-resource settings (Viruses)
  • 10 facts on yaws eradication (WHO)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Read out on the GHSA ministerial meeting in Kampala (Pandora Report)
  • The microbes making themselves at home on the space station (The Atlantic)
  • Mason grad puts her stamp on postal investigations with biodefense innovation (GMU)
  • Biosecurity conference forges international collaboration, meets need (ASU)
  • The art of translating science (Scientific American)
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