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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…

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Happening This Week: ASM Biothreats

Superbugs and Superdrugs: Researchers Identify 10 New Immune Systems in Bacteria

Zika Vaccine: Takeda Initiates Phase 1 Trial of TAK-426

Tangen BioSciences’ Anthrax Diagnostic Awarded 3.2M BARDA Contract

BARDA BAA 2018: Pandemic Influenza, Infectious Diseases, CBRN Countermeasures

First Shipment of ANTHIM Anthrax Treatment Delivered to Strategic National Stockpile

Achaogen Gets Federal Funding for Biowarfare Agent Therapeutic Development

Chlorine Gas Medical Countermeasures: 61M Contract Awarded to GlaxoSmithKline

Motif Biosciences Unveil Novel Solutions for the Treatment Deadly Superbugs

Pandemic Preparedness: Seqirus Quadruples Manufacturing Output for Flu Vaccine

Antibiotics Update: Three Discovery Projects That You Should Know About

BARDA Backs Food-Grade Compound as Repellent Against Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes

BARDA Awards 46M for Treatment System that Cleans Pathogens from Blood

Emergent Unveils Expanded CIADM Facility for Medical Countermeasure Preparedness

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Race for a Zika Vaccine

BARDA Pre-Solicitations for Advancing Ebola Vaccines and Therapeutics

Pandemics, Personnel, and Politics: How the Trump Administration is Leaving Us Vulnerable to the Next Outbreak

Monoclonal Antibody Cures Late-Stage Marburg Infection in Monkeys

Medical Countermeasure Nonclinical Studies Network Contract Awards

PHEMCE Review: Accomplishments and Future Areas of Opportunity

Biodefense Headlines – 13 July 2025