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Biodefense Headlines – 2 November 2025

News Scan November 2, 2025

This week’s topics include the politicization and weakening of the CDC amid mass firings and a government shutdown, a grim resurgence of bird flu threatening Thanksgiving supplies, and the Democratic…

Ground Breaking Typhoid Vaccine Reduces Infections by 80 Percent in Nepal

African Swine Fever Kills More Than 20 Wild Boar in Poland

Highly Sensitive Epigenomic Technology Combats Disease

Interview: Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years of Combating WMD Terrorism

Samoa Measles Outbreak: Death Toll Rises To 53, Mostly Children

Investigational Drugs Reduce Risk of Death from Ebola Virus Disease

There’s No Such Thing as Just-in-Time Healthcare and Public Health Preparedness

New Mobile Lab Born Out of Scientists’ Frustration During Ebola Outbreak

Osama bin Laden’s “Anthrax Scientist” Freed by Malaysia

OPCW Defends Syria Attack Conclusions After Document Leaks

Threat Detection in Your Pocket

Inflammatix Wins BARDA Backing for Diagnostic to Rapidly Distinguish Bacterial from Viral Infections

British Nationals Evacuated from Sierra Leone for Lassa Fever Contact Monitoring

Can Pro-Vaccine Bills Save Us From Ourselves?

Pakistan First Country to Introduce New Typhoid Vaccine to Fight Resistant Strain

Sensationalist Accounts of Outbreaks are Dangerous

CDC Approves Partial Resumption of USAMRIID Select Agent Research

Arctic Ice Melt Lets Deadly PDV Disease Spread from Atlantic

Meet the New Director of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

It’s An Exciting Time to Be a Microbiologist

Biodefense Headlines – 2 November 2025