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Biodefense Headlines – 27 April 2025

News Scan April 27, 2025

This week’s topics include a consensus on the Pandemic Treaty, a Marburg vaccine Phase II trial, legislation to increase stockpile readiness for anthrax bioterrorism, and the EU updating its medical…

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The Future of Global Health Security

Scholarships Available: Earn Your Master’s in Biodefense at the Schar School

How Putin Borrowed a Page From Assad’s Chemical Weapon Playbook

Emergex and GMU’s National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases Partner for Highly Pathogenic RNA Virus Studies

What Lessons Can the US Learn from Japan and South Korea for Combating Coronavirus?

People, Pigs, Plants, and Planetary Pandemic Possibilities

MERS-CoV: Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreak a Hard Lesson for Healthcare

Portable Isolation Unit: Coast Guard-Developed System for Evacuating Infectious or Contaminated Patients

Non-Medical Obstacles Impacting Public Health Responses

Summer Workshop on Pandemics, Bioterrorism, and Global Health Security: From Anthrax to Zika

Preventing Pandemics and Bioterrorism: Past, Present, and Future

Three Days Delving into Pandemics, Bioterrorism, and Global Health Security

Summer Workshop on Pandemics, Bioterrorism and Global Health Security

My Time As An Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Initiative Fellow

Preppers: On the Frontline of U.S. Preparedness

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

Summer Workshop on Pandemics, Bioterrorism, and Global Health Security

PHEMCE Review: Accomplishments and Future Areas of Opportunity

The Biotechnological Wild West: The Good, the Bad, and the Underknown of Synthetic Biology

Thinking About Bioterrorism with Schelling’s ‘Thinking about Nuclear Terrorism’

Biodefense Headlines – 27 April 2025