Opinion | As Bird Flu Looms, the Lessons of Past Pandemics Take on New Urgencywww.nytimes.com We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.
Matt Watson
#Biosecurity, #Biodefense, Global Health Security, Pandemic Preparedness
Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europewww.nytimes.com Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.
Biden Blasts Trump for Plan to Shutter Pandemic Prevention Officetime.com Trump told TIME he would close an office tasked with making sure the country is better prepared for the next pandemic
Joel Breman, Who Helped Stop an Ebola Outbreak in Africa, Dies at 87www.nytimes.com Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, malaria and Guinea worm.
First-in-human vaccine trial for deadly Nipah virus launched |www.ox.ac.uk First clinical trial participants received doses of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine over the last week at University of Oxford. UK trial is first step to developing a vaccine against Nipah virus – a
Remdesivir tied to 25% lower risk of in-hospital death in adults with COVID and no added oxygenwww.cidrap.umn.edu
They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a Warwww.wired.com The untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive underwater—and helped make D-Day a success.
RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960sarstechnica.com Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert.
101 studies flagged as bogus COVID cure pusher sees career unravelarstechnica.com It's a past-due reckoning for French microbiologist Didier Raoult, critics say.
A Proclamation on National Public Health Week, 2024 | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov During National Public Health Week, we celebrate the life-saving care of public health professionals who work tirelessly to promote our country’s health, safety, and well-being. We recognize that the...
Letter to DoD on Hidden BGI Subsidiary, Innomics, Operating in the US, Call on Pentagon to List Chinese Biotech Firms as 'Chinese Military Companies' | Select Committee on the CCPselectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party wrote ...
Avian influenza A virus (H7N7) associated with human conjunctivitis and a fatal case of acute respiratory distress syndromewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses of subtypes H5 and H7 are the causative agents of fowl plague in poultry. Influenza A viruses of subtype H5N1 also caused severe respiratory disease in huma...
Bird flu detected in person who had contact with infected dairy cattle in Texaswww.washingtonpost.com This is the second case of a human sickened by this highly virulent strain of bird flu in the United States, raising questions about whether this pathogen is now more easily transmitted among mammals.
The Fastest Edited Volume in Historydanieldrezner.substack.com And my thoughts on economic sanctions and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Future State of Smallpox Medical Countermeasuresnap.nationalacademies.org Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: vehicles fall into water after ship hits bridgewww.theguardian.com Mayor says rescue efforts are under way after cargo vessel crashed into Francis Scott Key Bridge, sending vehicles into water
The White House Advances Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Leadership with the Launch of the National Bioeconomy Board | OSTP | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov By Sarah Glaven, Principal Assistant Director for Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, Industrial Innovation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Biotechnology harnesses the power of bi...
RNA deserves its own massive counterpart to the human genome project, researchers arguewww.science.org U.S. report lays out an ambitious plan to harness the “RNome” for medicine and more—but funding is uncertain