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Biodefense Headlines – April 30, 2026

News Scan April 30, 2026

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…

Washington State Recalls 12,000 COVID-19 Test Kits Due to Possible Contamination

Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing of Ebola Virus: A Biological Threat

Health Care Workers Seek Legal Immunity During Pandemic Response

CDC Coronavirus Test Kit Failure Due to Contamination

Nothing About NYC’s High Outbreak Numbers Was Inevitable

Hospitals Need Dialysis Equipment as Thousands of Coronavirus Patients Develop Kidney Problems

The Unusual Persistence of SARS-Cov-2 in Aerosol Suspensions

SAFE Act Introduced to Improve Strategic National Stockpile

High-Throughput Binding Ab Assay Directed Against the S Protein of SARS-CoV-2

UW Medicine Virology Lab Will Test for Past Infections of New Coronavirus

USF Study: COVID-19 Possibly Striking More Children Than Expected

BARDA and Sanofi Prepare for Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine

BARDA and Hememics Collaborate to Develop Rapid Diagnostic to Identify SARS-CoV-2

Investigational Chimp Adenovirus MERS-CoV Vaccine Protects Monkeys

Antiviral Remdesivir Prevents Disease Progression in Monkeys with COVID-19

RIT Researchers Build Micro-Device to Detect Bacteria, Viruses

Guide for Primary Care COVID-19 Remote Consultation

New Universal Ebola Vaccine May Fight All Four Virus Species that Infect Humans

Massachusetts Gov. Proposes New Legislation to Mitigate Threat of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, West Nile Virus

FDA Accepts REGN-EB3 Ebola Treatment for Priority Review

Biodefense Headlines – April 30, 2026