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T
oday's Headlines: December 10, 2018
Biological Agents & Infectious Diseases
A global outbreak of African swine fever will reach the US within a year unless border protections are tightened and imports of high-risk pork products banned, warn biosecurity experts. It would cost the US economy $16.5bn (£12.9bn) in the first year alone, it has been estimated.
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Government Affairs & National Security
How A Divided Congress Could Unite Around Tech (Belfer Center) There is one important area where members could defy partisan gridlock to help Washington better meet a critical challenge of 21st century governance: assessing the public impact of today's disruptive technologies. Go to article
Global Health Security
Deadly, Highly Resistant Klebsiella Found in Indian Hospital (CIDRAP) Researchers at an Indian hospital have identified strains of hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae associated with extremely high mortality rates, according to a new study in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. Go to article
Simulation Exercise Puts Global Pandemic Readiness to the Test (WHO)
A simulation for a global pandemic response involving more than 40 countries will take place 4-6 December, 2018, coordinated by the World Health Organization's Global Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) and by the EOC Network, a global network of health emergency operations centres. This is the first global pandemic response training exercise, and the third in a series of simulations this year, following regional exercises in Jordan and Senegal.
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Science & Technology
Other 21st Century Threats
Study: The World's Worst Mass Extinction Should Make You Very Nervous for our Future (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Some 250 million years ago, back when the world was still comprised of the single, super continent Pangea, a geologic catastrophe wiped out nearly every single ocean-dwelling creature on the planet: fish, crustaceans, mollusks, even microbes. Go to article
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