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Biodefense Headlines – 13 July 2025

News Scan July 13, 2025

This week’s topics include cuts to CDC and USAID that threaten global biodefense, breakthrough vaccines for Nipah and CCHF, and confirmation of airborne H5N1 transmission in mammals. Also: Rwanda’s rapid…

Fresh Approach to an Old Problem Yields Clues to Tularemia Virulence

Personalized Protective Biosystems: DARPA Program Developing Innovative Threat Barriers

An Ancient Legend Could Provide a New Weapon in Fight Against Deadly Bacteria

Measles May Have Emerged 1500 Years Earlier Than Thought

How Devastating is PEDv in the Pig Industry?

Ebola in DRC: The Most Surprising Was the Fake News of It

PBS Filmmaker Q&A on Covering Ebola Response in North Kivu

Outbreak of Listeria Infections Linked to Hard-boiled Eggs

Rebuilding After Ebola: Sierra Leone Asks Idris Elba to Serve as “Brand Ambassador”

Health Security Milestone: First FDA-Approved Ebola Vaccine

USAID Podcast: Strengthening Our Capabilities for Relief and Response

Ebola Patient Was Not Reinfected: Killed by Resurgence of Virus Lurking in Immune System

Getting to Zero Ebola Cases: Better Communication to Overcome Community Mistrust

Henry Eigelsbach, Microbiologist Known for Tularemia Research, Dies at 100

Key Lawmaker Calls for Halt to BioDetection 21 Program

Korea Biomedical Review: The Essential Nature of Biosurveillance

What Is Herd Immunity?

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Biodefence: Implications for Threat Assessment and Biosurveillance

Congo Authorities Say Ebola Survivor Falls Ill Second Time

Ground Breaking Typhoid Vaccine Reduces Infections by 80 Percent in Nepal

Biodefense Headlines – 13 July 2025