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Biodefense Headlines – January 7, 2018

by Global Biodefense Staff
January 7, 2018
Biodefense Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including flu hitting hard across the U.S., ecologic features of plague outbreaks, and Canada’s biological response plan.

BIOPREPAREDNESS

  • Bio-preparedness needs to start at the frontlines of disease control (Contagion)
  • Don’t drop the ball on outbreak preparedness (Outbreak Observatory)
  • Agroterrorism a real threat to America’s food supply (The Hill)
  • Protecting the public’s health from diseases, disasters and bioterrorism (TFAH)
  • Canada’s biological response plan (CCDR)
  • Biological weapons threat in the spotlight (Pandora Report)

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • An infection preventionist’s take on the 2017 Bio Weapons Convention (Contagion)
  • Ebola survivors sue government of Sierra Leone over missing millions (Guardian)
  • Biothreats and WMD in the new national security strategy (MWI)
  • Legislative battles to watch: A reauthorization for PAHPRA (STAT)
  • The crime of gender inequality in global health (Foreign Policy)
  • FDA announces it won’t enforce certain FSMA rules (CIDRAP)
  • Analyzing the detection and response aspects of global health security (Contagion)
  • The future of combating terrorism and countering the use of WMD (Hudson Institute)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • Philippines fines Sanofi, suspends clearance for Dengvaxia (Reuters)
  • Nontraditional products in development to combat bacterial infections (PEW)
  • Brazil expects to be declared free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination (Reuters)
  • WHO prequalifies typhoid vaccine (OH&S)

SELECT AGENTS

  • A discussion of Ebola virus and BSL4 containment (ASM)
  • Ecologic features of plague outbreak areas, DRoC (EID)
  • Single amino acid change in Marburg glycoprotein attenuates virus (mSphere)
  • Small molecule oligosaccharyltransferase inhibitor with pan-flaviviral activity (NCBI)
  • Toward national clinical guidelines for botulism (Oxford Academic)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Flu counts jump as 46 states report widespread activity (CIDRAP)
  • E. coli deaths linked to romaine lettuce, officials say (NY Times)
  • As H5N6 hits more poultry, researchers test threat of earlier strain (CIDRAP)
  • Severe flu brings medicine shortages, packed ERs (LA Times)

RESEARCH & TECH

  • Decoding the geometry of viruses could lead to better vaccines (Wired)
  • Genome database resource with visualization and analysis tools (ViPR)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • CDC to brief the public on responding to a nuclear attack (Defense One)
  • Long-term consequences of the global 1918 influenza pandemic (CINCH)
  • Of rats and men: Poussin’s plague at Ashdod (EID)
  • Citizen science: Your computer can volunteer, too (Discover)
  • GMU Biodefense Master’s Open House Feb 21 (GMU)

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