This week’s selections include cascading institutional disruptions reshaping U.S. public health and science governance — including the Trump administration’s mass firing of the National Science Board and restrictions on graduate…

Wastewater Data Show Texas and Mississippi Driving a Late Summer COVID-19 Uptick

Wastewater Surveillance Is Ready — But the System Connecting It to Clinicians and Communities Remains Incomplete

Wastewater Surveillance Detects New Flu Variant a Month Before It Shows Up in Hospitals

Biosurveillance

Seeing the Invisible: How Machine Learning Is Closing Rabies Surveillance Gaps in Haiti

EU Health Task Force Finds Airport Ebola Screening Systems Functional but Room for Improvement in DRC and Uganda

Romanian Forensic Data Reveals Complexity of COVID-19 Cause-of-Death Attribution

A National Reference Lab Just Built an Early Warning Tool for Infectious Disease. It’s Free and Public.

Avian Flu Testing Scaled Back on Dairy Farms as Experts Warn of Surveillance Gaps

Africa CDC Launches Genomics Advisory Body to Strengthen Health Security

Kenyan Bat Coronavirus Binds to Human Lung Receptor, Revealing New Pandemic Surveillance Path

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Is Circulating Widely in the DRC

WHO Reports New Human Cases of Avian and Swine Influenza Across Four Continents

Pathogen-Agnostic Sequencing Finds Hidden Viruses

Dengue: How Traveler Data Could Close the Gap in Global Outbreak Detection

Building America’s Biosurveillance Radar: AI and Metagenomics for Early Pathogen Detection

Decoding Outbreaks: How Genomics Is Transforming U.S. Public Health Surveillance

Standardizing Wildlife Disease Data for Global Health Security

Tracking the Threat: How a New H5N1 Virus Variant Took Hold Across Europe

Flushing Out Variants: Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 via National Wastewater Monitoring

From Panzootic to Pandemic: The Looming Threat of an Avian Influenza Pandemic

Study Details Evolution of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Are We There Yet? Agent Agnostic Metagenome Sequencing for Biothreat Detection

Rabies: Rare Case of Infected Opossum in Urban Area Raises Alarm

Biodefense Headlines – April 30, 2026

Biosecurity Simulation Exercise (BSX 2026)

Opportunities for Strengthening and Updating Crisis Standards of Care

Training Course on Biotechnology Innovation and Biosecurity

INTERPOL Global Biosecurity Conference 2026