News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week’s selections include the largest ever outbreak of mpox in the DRC; launch of National Wastewater Surveillance Program dashboard; low uptake of COVID-19 boosters and flu vaccines;…

EPA Developing AMR Risk Framework for Antibacterial and Antifungal Pesticides

A New Way to Create Germ-Killing Light

Study Links Air Pollution to Rise in Antibiotic Resistance

Antimicrobial Resistance

Parasites of Viruses Drive Superbug Evolution

FebriDx Rapid Diagnostic Receives FDA Clearance

Dr. Sen Pei Discusses Challenges in Forecasting Antimicrobial Resistance

Novel Antibiotic Shows Success in Treatment of Plague and Melioidosis

MIT Researchers Make Progress on Antibiotic Resistance Under DTRA-JSTO Research Program

Long Term Care Outbreak Strike Teams, Increased Laboratory Capacity Part of $2.1 Billion CDC Effort to Enhance Infection Control

Is it a Bacterial or Viral Infection? Novel MeMed Rapid Test Receives FDA Clearance

New Tool in the AMR Fight: Synthetic RNA That Hugs Bad Bacterial RNA and Won’t Let Go

Bacteria ‘Shuffle’ Their Genetics Around to Develop Antibiotic Resistance on Demand

Sounding the Alarm on Resistant Strains of Staph Spreading Between Pigs Raised on Factory Farms

New Vaccine Development Platform Could Fight Deadly, Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

Defense Threat Reduction Agency Awards $75M for Antibiotic Drug Development

DoD Biosurveillance Program Collaborates to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Is Your Infection Bacterial or Viral? DoD-Backed Screening Device Gives Quick Answers

Scientists Engineer Bacteria-Killing Molecules from Wasp Venom

Basilea Awarded Additional Funding from U.S. Medical Countermeasure Program for Ceftobiprole Development

Genome of Alexander Fleming’s Original Penicillin-Producing Mould Sequenced

Global Spread of the Multi-Resistant Pathogen Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia

Titanium–Gadolinium Quantum Dot Staining Agent Specific to Bacterial Cells

Trial Shows Two Drugs Not Better Than One When Treating MRSA

Biodefense Headlines – 30 November 2023

2024 Fungal Genetics Conference

ASPPH 2024 Annual Meeting