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

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

Diagnostic Device Challenge RFP

Army Seeks Contract Support for Biosurveillance Centers

Biodefense Headlines – April 30, 2026