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Outbreak News

Rift Valley Fever Returns to Senegal: Climate, Livestock, and a Persistent Viral Threat

October 13, 2025

Preparedness

New Funding Expands U.S. Special Pathogen Preparedness Through STAND Program

October 12, 2025

Biosecurity

Closing the Biosecurity Gap in Synthetic Biology

October 7, 2025

Global Mpox Cases Decline, but WHO Urges Vigilance as Clade Ib Circulates Beyond Africa

Infectious Diseases November 3, 2025

NATO and FLI Lead International Workshop on Zoonotic and Bioterrorism Threats

Policy + Initiatives October 25, 2025

In mid-September 2025, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI)—Germany’s Federal Research Institute for Animal Health—hosted the NATO-supported Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) titled “Update on…

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Biodefense Headlines – 2 November 2025

November 2, 2025

Top Headlines

Global Mpox Cases Decline, but WHO Urges Vigilance as Clade Ib Circulates Beyond Africa

November 3, 2025

NATO and FLI Lead International Workshop on Zoonotic and Bioterrorism Threats

October 25, 2025

WHO Warns of Worsening Global Cholera Crisis as U.S. Aid Declines

October 13, 2025

Rift Valley Fever Returns to Senegal: Climate, Livestock, and a Persistent Viral Threat

October 13, 2025

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

Building Europe’s Health Shield: New EU4Health Calls Advance Medical Countermeasures and Diagnostics

September 22, 2025

New Antibiotic Options Show Promise Against Biothreat Pathogens

September 12, 2025

Nanoparticle Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise in Enhancing Biodefense Preparedness

September 9, 2025

New Mutation and DNA Repeats Behind Ceftazidime Resistance in Melioidosis Bacterium

September 5, 2025

CBRNE

Advances in Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection

September 22, 2025

Building Europe’s Health Shield: New EU4Health Calls Advance Medical Countermeasures and Diagnostics

September 22, 2025

Pioneering Defense Innovation in Chemical and Biological Threat Detection

September 2, 2025

Radiation-Resistant Bacterium Discovered in Irradiator Pool Challenges Safety Assumptions

July 22, 2025

Medical Countermeasures

UK Opens Moderna mRNA Vaccine Centre in Oxfordshire and Launches £50 Million Life-Sciences Fund

Global Biodefense StaffSeptember 29, 2025

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Pathogens February 6, 2022

WSU Animal Disease Lab Awarded Funding to Improve Early Detection of Outbreaks in Animals

Biosecurity February 4, 2022

The US National Blood Crisis: Supply at 10-year Low From Pandemic Disruptions

Health Security February 4, 2022

Israel is Rolling Out Fourth Doses of COVID Vaccines to Everyone. Should Others Follow?

Outbreak News February 4, 2022

Stroke Risk for Older COVID-19 Patients Highest Within First 3 Days After Diagnosis

Infectious Diseases February 3, 2022

US Government Invests in At-Home Single Swab Combined Flu, COVID Test

Biodetection February 3, 2022

Select Agents

U.S. Expands Investments in Biodefense Preparedness Through New Medical Countermeasure Contracts

New Study Reveals Key to Marburg and Ebola Virus Assembly, Opening Door to Broad-Spectrum Antivirals

Advances in Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection

New Antibiotic Options Show Promise Against Biothreat Pathogens

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Rising Threat of NDM-CRE in U.S. Healthcare: CDC Data Reveal a Concerning Shift

September 26, 2025

New Antibiotic Options Show Promise Against Biothreat Pathogens

September 12, 2025

New Mutation and DNA Repeats Behind Ceftazidime Resistance in Melioidosis Bacterium

September 5, 2025

Drug-Resistant Citrobacter Strain Spreads Across Hospitals and Continents

July 21, 2025

POLICY + PREPAREDNESS

NATO and FLI Lead International Workshop on Zoonotic and Bioterrorism Threats

October 25, 2025

New Funding Expands U.S. Special Pathogen Preparedness Through STAND Program

October 12, 2025

Closing the Biosecurity Gap in Synthetic Biology

October 7, 2025

UK Opens Moderna mRNA Vaccine Centre in Oxfordshire and Launches £50 Million Life-Sciences Fund

September 29, 2025

PATHOGENS

Rabies Outbreak in Maryland Cat Colony Exposes Gaps in Urban Animal Management

September 24, 2025

Q Fever May Be Complicating the Diagnostic Picture of Persistent Fevers

September 23, 2025

New Study Reveals Key to Marburg and Ebola Virus Assembly, Opening Door to Broad-Spectrum Antivirals

September 23, 2025

Advances in Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection

September 22, 2025