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    Biodefense Headlines – December 17, 2017

    By Global Biodefense StaffDecember 17, 2017
    Biological Defense Headlines of the Week
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    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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