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Biological Agents & Infectious Diseases
Fatal H7N9 Case Reported in China (
CIDRAP) Following an unprecedented number of cases in the 5th wave of H7N9 activity, China is now reporting sporadic cases, and the new illness is the first since Aug 4. The 48-year-old man from the city of Jishou, Xiangxi's capital, got sick on Aug 9 and died from his illness. He worked in waste collection and has an underlying health condition.
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Brazil Monitoring Oropouche Virus Threat (
CIDRAP) Sporadic cases of Oropouche fever--a vector-borne illness with symptoms similar to dengue, chikungunya, and Zika--have been detected in Brazil's Amazonas state since 2011, according to an investigation by the Fiocruz Institute and state-based surveillance.
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Henry County Fair Closes Pig Barn Over H1N2 Swine Flu (
Avian Flu Diary) For the 3rd time this summer an Ohio county fair has been forced to close their swine exhibit due to swine flu. On July 14th we saw Clinton Co. Ohio Fair Closes Hog Barn Over Swine H3N2, followed a week later by the closure of the Franklin County Fair exhibit due to H1N1. Yesterday the media reported the closure of the Henry County pig barn after the discovery of swine H1N2 in 4 pigs.
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Government Affairs & National Security
Who is the Lone Terrorist? A Study of Vehicle-Borne Attackers in Israel and the West Bank (
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism) Previous studies have failed to point out a comprehensive profile of lone terrorists, and suggested that examining more specific sub-groups of lone actors, sharing contextual factors or ideology, may produce such a profile. The current study examines the sub-group of vehicle-borne lone terrorists, who committed their attacks in Israel and the West Bank between January 2000 and March 2016.
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Medicine & Public Health
The Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Might Start with Vaccines (
FiveThirtyEight) It seems like a major part of keeping kids healthy these days is managing their microbial exposure. On the one hand, we're told that letting our kids get dirty and tempering our use of hand sanitizer can help cultivate a healthy population of good microbes in and on the body, which is associated with lower rates of chronic maladies like asthma and allergies. On the other hand, we know that among all the benign and beneficial bacteria in the world lurk some that are deadly, causing diseases such as whooping cough, pneumonia and meningitis.
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China Launches Brain-Imaging Factory (
Nature) Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale. A huge facility set to open in Suzhou, China, next month should transform high-resolution brain mapping, its developers say.
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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza A Virus Within and Between Human Hosts (
bioRxiv) A complete understanding of influenza virus evolution requires studies at all levels, as viral evolutionary dynamics may differ across spatial and temporal scales. The relative contribution of deterministic processes, such as selection, and stochastic processes, such as genetic drift, is influenced by viral effective population size. While the global evolution of influenza A virus is dominated by the positive selection of novel antigenic variants that circulate in the tropics, much less is known about influenza virus evolution within and between human hosts.
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Other 21st Century Threats
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