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…

Raccoons, Rivers, and a Rising Pathogen: Study Traces Bacterium from Wildlife to Humans

A Bat on His Face in the Night: A Child’s Death and a Warning for Summer

WOAH Releases Landmark Guidelines for African Swine Fever Vaccine Field Evaluation and Post-Vaccination Monitoring

Pathogens

Ebola Outbreak ‘Out of All Proportion’

Racing Ahead of Disease Outbreaks: $12M in Grants Awarded

Ebola Paper Demonstrates Disease Transmission Rate

New Compound Inhibits Enzyme Crucial to MERS and SARS

Scientists Reveal Cell Secret Potentially Useful For Vaccines

Antimicrobial Strategy Silences Resistant Gene in Pathogens

H3N8 Found in Harbor Seals Poses a Threat To Humans

Are Current Respiratory Infection Controls for Ebola Unnecessary?

New Gene Therapy Effective for Botulism

MERS: Low Transmissibility, Dangerous Illness

Cancer-Fighting Drugs Might Also Stop Malaria Early

U.S. Government Accelerates Ebola Vaccine Trials

Navy Malaria Research in Peru

WSU Flu Outbreak Provides Rare Study Material

Ebola Planning vs. Ebola Risk

Key to Universal Flu Vaccine: Embrace the Unfamiliar

Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo Possibly Different Strain

Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Available for Military

Improved Animal Model Established for MERS-CoV

OMRF Awarded 14.5M for Anthrax Studies

Biodefense Headlines – April 30, 2026