Most recent Biosecurity News in Brief, a daily digest that updates readers on national policy, new developments, important issues, and current events in biosecurity, bioterrorism, biodefense--produced by the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC.
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Earliest Known MERS Outbreak, in Jordan, Infected at Least 10 People
More MERS Virus Deaths in Saudi Arabia
Why MERS Isn’t SARS: Study Highlights Key Differences Between the Two Virus Outbreaks
FEMA Scales Back Flood Zones After Controversy
After Profits, Defense Contractor Faces the Pitfalls of Cybersecurity
Axed Chemical Weapons Unit Could Be Reopened as UK Considers Joining US in Intervening in Syria
Disaster Preparation 101: 5 Post-hurricane Lessons from Ochsner and South Nassau Hospitals
MIT Researchers Study Pandemic Potential of H5N1 & H7N9 Virus
How to Discover an Antibiotic: A Historian's Guide
Update: Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus--Worldwide, 2012-2013
Dangerous Strains of E. coli May Linger Longer in Water
Medieval Skeletons Give Clues to Leprosy Origins
Data From 2011 Alabama Tornado Informs Future Safety Recommendations
World Population Projected to Reach 9.6 Billion by 2050--UN Report
After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden
Bloomberg Seeks to Redo Building Code in Sandy’s Wake
FDA, Facing Cybersecurity Threats, Tightens Medical-Device Standards
US Considers No-Fly Zone After Syria Crosses Nerve Gas “Red Line”
Saudis Report Three More MERS-CoV Cases, One Fatal
Barely Lethal
Transmission Scenarios for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and How to Tell Them Apart
Influenza Activity--United States, 2012-13 Season and Composition of the 2013-14 Influenza Vaccine
How Point-of-Care Testing Could Drive Innovation in Global Health
Sierra Leone Braces for Cholera Season
House Slashes Bioweapon Detection Funds, Citing Upgrade Delays
GAO Urges DHS Learn Lessons from Nixed Radiation Portal Monitor
Report: Surgeon General Regina Benjamin to Step Down
US Supreme Court Says Human DNA Cannot Be Patented
DHS to Include Climate Change Risk in Updated National Infrastructure Protection Plan
Effect of an Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention on Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Prescribing by Primary Care Pediatricians
New Mechanism of TB Drug Resistance Identified
Breaking Bad with Breakbone Fever
Canadian Botulism Study Finds Outbreaks Centered Around Native Population
Good Coffee Threatened by Disease Outbreak
Bloomberg Outlines $20 Billion Storm Protection Plan
Pakistanis: Give Us Electricity, or We Won't Vaccinate Our Kids Against Polio
Introducing the Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan
Federal Officials Weigh H7N9 Vaccine Options
Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
Drones Can Save the World, Drones Can Destroy Us All
This 3-D Printed Bioplastic Windpipe Saved a Baby's Life
The Duck Genome and Transcriptome Provide Insight into an Avian Influenza Virus Reservoir Species
Nuclear Power's Future May Hinge on Georgia Project
International Cyber Security at the UN: Between Doom and Hesitant Optimism
Singapore Dengue Outbreak Worsens
Multistate Outbreak of Hepatitis A Infection Potentially Associated with "Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend" Frozen Berry and Pomegranate Mix
WHO Praises Saudis on MERS-CoV Efforts, Cites Data Gaps
First Leprosy Case Reported in Republic of Ireland
WHO Proposes New Pandemic Flu Alert Levels
FDA Approves Sanofi’s 4-Strain Influenza Vaccine
Decreased Susceptibility to Cephalosporins Among Gonococci: Data from the Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme in England and Wales, 2007-2011
Adult Vaccination Rates Rise, but Not Enough
Mandatory Flu Shots No Big Sting for Hospital Workers
NIH Awards $18M to Study Deadly Secrets of Viral Pathogens
Surveillance and Vaccine Strategies Suggested by Studies Showing How Bird Flu Viruses Could Adapt to Humans
Still More Questions Than Answers on Nerve Gas in Syria
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: Joint Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/WHO Mission
WHO Raises its MERS-CoV Count to 55 Cases, 31 Deaths
Update: Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)--Worldwide, 2012-2013
Saudi Silence on Deadly MERS Virus Outbreak Frustrates World Health Experts
WHO, CDC Issue New H7N9 Assessments and Guidance
China Confirms 131 H7N9 Cases, 39 Deaths
Ulema Conference: Sabotage of Polio Drive Blamed on Dr. Afridi
Patent Eligibility of Biological Methods and Compositions
Live Attenuated Tularemia Vaccines: Recent Developments and Future Goals
What's in a Duck? Genetic Clues for Understanding Bird Flu Outbreaks
How Do You Feed 9 Billion People?
US Receives Syria Chemical Weapons Evidence from France
US and China Move Closer on North Korea, but Not on Cyberespionage
Italians Test Negative for MERS-CoV
H7N9 Flu Outbreak Surprising, Puzzling
How Nature Builds a Pandemic Flu Virus
Hepatitis A Outbreak Sickens Target Pharmacist; Customers May Have Been Exposed
New York City Storm Preparedness Proposals Introduced in City Council
Straight Talk with...Tom Inglesby
Who Owns MERS?
Progress in Global Surveillance and Response Capacity 10 Years After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
"Aleppo Evil": The Ulcer, the Boil, the Sandfly, and the Conflict
Shortages of Drugs Threaten TB Fight
Food Supply and Food Safety Issues in China
New Vaccine Drives Africa Meningitis Cases to Lowest in Decade
US Surveillance Brings Privacy and Security to the Fore
Limits to Arms Control, Threat-Reduction Efforts Added to House Defense Bill
Global Force's Needs Shape DOD Biosurveillance
US-China Cyber Security Wrangle Lies Ahead
US Orders New Safety Upgrades at Nuclear Plants
WHO, Saudi Reports Raise MERS-CoV Count
Chicken, Quail Catch and Shed High Volumes of New H7N9 Flu, Study Shows
NC Holiday Inn Salmonella Outbreak Declared over at 103 Cases
Transmission of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in the USA: A Cross-sectional Study
Universal Access to Care for Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: An Analysis of Surveillance Data
DHEC: Dozens in SC Infected with Tuberculosis
Social Factors as Modifiers of Hurricane Irene Evacuation Behavior in Beaufort County, NC
Pandemic Influenza Viruses--Hoping for the Road Not Taken
Critical Care Surveillance: Insights into the Impact of the 2010/11 Influenza Season Relative to the 2009/10 Pandemic Season in England
Tuberculosis, Anthrax, and Other Diseases May Be Treated More Effectively by New Kind of Antibiotic
Weather May Influence Transmission of West Nile, Other Threats
Fukushima Nuclear Plant: Radioactive Water Leak Found
NetTraveler Spyware Compromised 1,000 Political and Industrial Targets
UN Reserves Judgment on Syrian Sarin Use
DoD Releases Doctrine on Mass Atrocity Response Operations
Saudi Arabia Reports Another MERS-Cov Case
Administration Declares Mideast Flu a Public Health Emergency
Listeria Killed 1 in 5 Infected in Recent Years
Faces of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
Accord Aims to Create Global Trove of Genetic Data
NBAF at Center of Budget Fight Between Obama and House Republicans
Sequestration Specs at NIH
Scientific Publishers Offer Solution to White House's Public Access Mandate
US House Passes Track-and-Trace Legislation to Secure Supply Chain
Polio Virus Discovered in Sewage from Israel
Meningitis Outbreak: Three More People Die from Fungal Illness
WHO Expert Team, including Canadian, in Saudi Investigating MERS Outbreak
Hurricane Preparedness: What Every City Must Consider
WHO Warns of Syria Disease Threat
The Promise of Vaccines
UN and World Bank Leaders: Resilience Is Vital to Africa’s Promising Development Future
Obama Administration Seeks to Loosen Antibiotics Approvals
FDA Commissioner Hints at New Diagnostic Test Regulations
UN Rights Team Believes Chemical Weapons Used in Syria
Syria Crisis: France's Fabius 'Confirms Sarin Use'