This week’s topics include restructuring of ASPR, anti-vaccine leadership at NIH, the UK’s new pathogen priority research targets list, and data on a post-exposure treatment for filoviruses. FEATURED Trump Administration…

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

Biosurveillance

CDC Issues Recommendations for Avian Influenza A (H7N9)

U.S. Navy Helps Train Iraqi Scientists on Outbreak Surveillance

Using Air Transportation Data to Predict Pandemics

Emerging Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Not Adapted to Efficient Human-to-Human Transmission

The Art of Flu Forecasting

China Should Consider Staggered Vaccine Plan for Influenza

Bioterrorism Surveillance and Reconnaissance – RFI

New SARS-like Coronavirus Discovered in Chinese Horseshoe Bats

FAZD Center’s Enhanced Passive Surveillance System

RFP – Joint Biological Tactical Detection System

Avian Influenza Virus Detection Using Smell

Sandia Researching New Detectors for Chemical, Biological Threats

Scientists Describe Genesis, Evolution of H7N9 Influenza Virus

Government Seeks Field Detectors for Brevetoxins

Researchers Describe Potential for MERS Coronavirus to Spread

WHO Panel Says New Coronavirus Not Yet a Global Emergency

JHU APL, DoD Release Open-Source Disease Surveillance Software

Yellow Fever Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo

Botulinum Neurotoxin Assay Contract to Fluoresentric

BioWatch Field Monitoring RFI

Biodefense Headlines – 31 March 2025