Biological Security - Weekly Update - May 2022

The Weekly Biological Security Update is prepared by PGA's International Peace and Security Program and provided strictly for informational purposes only. Any opinions expressed in articles contained in this Update are not necessarily shared by PGA or any individual/s associated with PGA, nor does PGA, or any individual/s associated with PGA, vouch for the accuracy of the contents of these articles.

May23

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Africa CDC warns possible new COVID-19 variant amid spike in new cases	MB-Home \| Macau Business
Africa	Africa contained monkeypox outbreaks during COVID – Africa CDC	Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
Australia	$3.99 million project to protect Australia from zoonotic viruses	Home - CSU News
Australia	Mouse plague warning as numbers increase across eastern states and WA	ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Austria	Austria confirms first case of monkeypox	RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan denies Russian claims on biological warfare centers in country	AzerNews - News from Azerbaijan, Business, Energy, Analysis
Belgium	Belgium detects first two monkeypox cases	Breaking International News & Views \| Reuters
Belgium	Belgium becomes first country to introduce compulsory monkeypox quarantine	Business News, Finance News, India News, BSE/NSE News, Stock Markets News, Sensex NIFTY, Budget 2022
Bulgaria	Exclusive: Mink covered in gaping wounds lie in filthy cages in shocking footage from Bulgaria's last remaining mink fur farm where 100,000 animals are killed every year	Home \| Daily Mail Online
Global	Can we stop the next pandemic by seeking out deadly viruses in the wild?	Vox - Understand the News
Canada	Où se cachent les prochains virus zoonotiques?	UdeMNouvelles, l’actualité de l’Université de Montréal \| UdeMNouvelles
Canada	Building resilience in Canada’s health-care system	The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis
Canada	Canada confirms first two monkeypox cases	Reuters
Canada	'We do not have to panic': Canada now a global centre of broadening monkeypox outbreak	Ottawa Citizen
Canada/US	Massachusetts Monkeypox case linked to cluster of cases in Montreal, Canadian health officials say	Boston News, Weather and Sports - Massachusetts News - WCVB Channel 5
Canada	Monkeypox cases under investigation in Canada as outbreak spreads in Europe, U.S.	CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster
Canada	Monkeypox outbreaks may have quietly spread unnoticed for months worldwide	CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster
Canada	Canada: Parliament’s special committee to examine ties with China	Hindustan Times
China	China's Security Deal with the Solomons Could Include "Dual-Use" Ports	The Maritime Executive: Maritime News \| Marine News
Denmark	Danish farmers turn their backs on mink after Covid mutation cull	News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition \| The Guardian
DRC	Ebola Fatalities in Congo Raise Concern of More Virulent Strain	Bloomberg
DRC	UNICEF DRC Ebola Situation Report #4 for 12	ReliefWeb - Informing humanitarians worldwide
DRC	Ebola outbreak: 4th case confirmed in Mbandaka	Outbreak News Today -
RDC	RDC : un 4e décès dû à Ebola dans le nord-ouest du pays	Centre d'Informations Internet de Chine
España	5 armas biológicas y químicas que se utilizaban en la Antigüedad	Muy Historia
España	Viruela del mono en España, última hora \| Siete comunidades detectan ya casos sospechosos de viruela de mono	EL MUNDO - Diario online líder de información en español
España	España, el país europeo con más casos de viruela del mono	Noticias de última hora, programas y series de televisión - RTVE.es
Europe	Monkeypox spreads in Europe as Sweden, Italy, France and Belgium confirm first cases	The Independent \| Latest news and features from US, UK and worldwide
Europe	Disease experts offer early ideas about why Europe's monkeypox outbreak has swelled	NBC News - Breaking News & Top Stories - Latest World, US & Local News \| NBC News
France	VARIOLE DU SINGE: UN PREMIER CAS D'INFECTION DÉTECTÉ EN FRANCE	Actualités en continu et info en direct et replay - BFMTV
France	Variole du singe : fièvre, boutons, fatigue… quels sont les symptômes du Monkeypox ?	Actualités et infos de Montpellier et sa région - À la une - midilibre.fr
Gabon	Avian flu spreads to poultry in Central Africa	The resource for the global poultry industry \| WATTAgNet \| WATTPoultry
Germany	Monkeypox Detected in Germany, 11 Countries Outside Africa Hit by Outbreak	NewsWeek
Deutschland	Verbreitung der Affenpocken für Charité-Forscher Sander "kein Grund zur Panik"	RBB24
Deutschland/G7	Szenario "Leopard-Pocken": G7-Gesundheitsminister simulieren Ausbruch von Pandemie	Nachrichten Augsburg Bayern \| Augsburger Allgemeine
Deutschland	Müssen wir wegen der Affenpocken Angst haben? Virologe Hartmut Hengel ordnet ein	Nachrichten aus der Region \| SÜDKURIER
Global	Global COVID-19 Summit brings new policy, financial commitments to whole-of-society pandemic preparations	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
Guinea	Implementing a DHIS2 Ebola virus disease module during the 2021 Guinea Ebola outbreak	ReliefWeb - Informing humanitarians worldwide
India	???? Monkeypox ??? ?? Bioweapon ??? ???? ???? ?? ?? ?? ???? ??? ?? ???? ???	Hindi news, हिंदी न्यूज़ , Hindi Samachar, हिंदी समाचार, Latest News in Hindi, Breaking News in Hindi, ताजा ख़बरें, Aaj Tak News
India	Health ministry asks NCDC, ICMR to keep vigil on suspected monkeypox cases	Business News \| Stock and Share Market News \| Finance News \| Sensex Nifty, NSE, BSE Live IPO News
India	Kerala CM pays rich tribute to Nipah warrior nurse	International Development News, Breaking News, Opinion and Analysis - Devdiscourse
India	‘Defence labs must think of dual-use products as social responsibility’	The Hindu : Breaking News, India News, Sports News and Live Updates
India	Why preparation for the next pandemic needs One Health approach implementation in letter and spirit	LIVE updates, Latest News, Breaking News, Bollywood, Business and Political News – Firstpost
India	Gearing up to pre-empt, push back pandemics	News Headlines: Top News Today & Breaking News \| Tribune India
India	Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach	Nature
Ireland	Monkeypox 'likely' to reach Ireland, says tropical disease expert	BreakingNews.ie \| Irish News \| Breaking News from Ireland
Ireland	Team set up to prepare Ireland for monkeypox	RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster
Ireland	Monkeypox sufferers in Ireland will be ‘monitored’ for 21 days and should self-isolate	Breaking News Ireland - Latest World News Headlines - Independent.ie
Israel	Israel becomes latest country to report monkeypox case	Breaking News Ireland - Latest World News Headlines - Independent.ie
Global	More than 100 confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in 12 countries, including the US	CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Global	Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year	Brownstone Institute ⋆ Open Society and Liberty
Global	Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert	Nature
Nigeria	Biosafety Agency not created to stop GMOs – DG	Sun News Online
Russian Federation	Russia looked into using monkeypox as biological weapon, claims ex soviet scientist	The Mirror: The Heart of Britain
Switzerland/Israel	Monkeypox: Israel and Switzerland confirm cases	BBC - Homepage
Global	The most advanced treatments for monkeypox were developed to address the wrong threat	Quartz — Global business news and insights
Global	The World Needs a Pandemic Protection Team	The Wall Street Jurnal
UAE	Dubai issues advisory on zoonotic disease monkeypox	Khaleej Times - Dubai News, UAE News, Gulf, News, Latest news, Arab news, Gulf News, Dubai Labour News
UAE	Camelid IFNs could play important role in combating emerging zoonotic pathogens	Medical News \| Medical Articles
Ukraine	Désintox. Non l'Ukraine n'utilise pas d'oiseaux migrateurs comme arme biologique	Franceinfo - Actualités en temps réel et info en direct
United Kingdom	Advancing transparency and building trust in biodefense	Phys.org
United Kingdom	UK to announce more monkeypox cases as efforts ramp up to contain outbreak	News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition \| The Guardian
United Kingdom	‘Now we have to deal with it’: what’s going on in the UK with monkeypox?	News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition \| The Guardian
United Kingdom	80 confirmed worldwide cases of monkeypox baffle African scientists who have long studied the disease	PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
United Kingdom	TfL: Photos show gruesome 'plague pit' unearthed during work for new Elizabeth Line	Essex Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Essex
United Kingdom	UK - Gloucester army veteran demands apology over Porton Down nerve gas tests	Gloucestershire Live - latest local news, sport & business from Gloucestershire
United Kingdom	Upskirting victim 'put off having baby' after incident at Porton Down	Salisbury News, Sport, Events - Salisbury Journal
United Nations	Monkeypox: UNAIDS ‘concerned’ about stigmatizing language against LGTBI people	UN News \| Global perspective, human stories
United Nations	UNODA intensifies efforts to mobilize youth in strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention	Welcome to the United Nations
United Nations	2021-2022 Comprehensive Review Background Paper for the Open Consultations of the 1540 Committee \| 31 May to 2 June 2022, New York "......The Committee continued to organize and participate in outreach events on the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004) at the international, regional, subregional, and national level, including, as appropriate, parliamentarians, as well as representatives of civil society....Resolution 2325 (2016) acknowledges the positive role performed by civil society, inter alia industry and academia, in promoting the full implementation of resolution 1540 (2004) by all Member States, and that parliamentarians have a key role in enacting the necessary legislation to implement the obligations of the resolution....."	Welcome to the United Nations
United Nations	President Joe Biden: US has enough vaccines to deal with monkeypox outbreak	USA Taday
United States	President Joe Biden: US has enough vaccines to deal with monkeypox outbreak	USA TODAY: Latest World and US News - USATODAY.com
United States	Monkeypox cases investigated in US, Canada and Europe	BBC - Homepage
United States	A Massachusetts Man Is Infected With Monkeypox	The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos
United States	Florida health officials investigating 3rd possible monkeypox case in US	ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News, Headlines & Videos - ABC News
United States	New York City case is positive for poxvirus; monkeypox confirmation pending, health officials say	Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
United States	CDC widens probe into monkeypox in U.S. beyond lone confirmed infection: It’s ‘a new phenomenon that we are working to understand better	Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
United States	Kissimmee Man Pleads Guilty To Possessing Ricin In Plot To Kill Former Partner	U.S. Department of Justice
United States	The Michigan Mink Mystery: How Did an Interspecies Outbreak Unfold?	The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos
United States	Army modernization investments foster development of dual-use technologies	The Official Home Page of the United States Army
United States	BARDA taps Bavarian Nordic to freeze-dry smallpox vaccine supplies	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
United States	Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency	The Washington Post
United States	The fur flies as House, Senate wrangle over ban on mink farming	Roll Call - Covering Capitol Hill Since 1955
United States	Fort Detrick garrison to lift security from National Interagency Biodefense Campus	fredericknewspost.com \| Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper
United States	Zoonotic spillover: the apocalypse you'll be hearing about	The Keene Sentinel \| Local Matters \| News in Keene \| Local Matters \| News in Keene NH
United States	Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems	US Right to Know
United States	Fact Check: Did Bill Gates Predict The Monkeypox Outbreak?	NewsWeek
United States	New monkeypox cases highlight importance of tracking zoonotic diseases	Minneapolis St. Paul News, Weather, Traffic, Sports \| Minneapolis, Minnesota \| kare11.com
United States	Cat tests positive for septicemic plague	FOX31 & Channel 2 \| Denver news, weather, traffic, sports \| KDVR & KWGN
United States	Bird flu: How is North America's largest-ever outbreak spreading?	The Jerusalem Post
Global	WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases top 100 in Europe	Reuters
WHO	Monkeypox one of 'formidable' challenges facing world, warns WHO	WalesOnline: News, sport, weather and events from across Wales
WHO	Multi-country monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries	WHO \| World Health Organization
Global	Why Wiping Out Smallpox Has Stoked Risk of Monkeypox	The Washington Post
Zimbabwe	Addressing gaps in surveillance of antimicrobial-resistant microbes in Zimbabwe	African Business - World leading source of analysis & debate on African economic issues

May16

Country	Topic	Source
Africa/Tanzani	Minister Urges Pga Members to Promote Biosecurity	Home – Africa CDC
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Africa	Africa CDC Announces 2nd Annual International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2022), 13-15 December 2022, Kigali, Rwanda	Home – Africa CDC
Africa	Africa's COVID-19 cases pass 11.55 mln: Africa CDC	English--People's Daily Online
Global	Analysis of the Virus SARS-CoV-2 as a Potential Bioweapon in Light of International Literature	DocWire
Global	A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents	Homeland Security Today
ASEAN	China bolsters collaboration to prevent zoonotic disease	Latest Indonesia News - ANTARA News
Global	A warming world gives viruses more chances to hitchhike from species to species	The Verge
Australia	Australia faces biggest biosecurity threat	Crikey
Cambodia	KOICA, USAID training zoonotic outbreak experts	Phnom Penn Post
Cambodia	Ministry urges NGOs’ collaboration in fighting proliferation of WMDs	Phnom Penn Post
Canada	BioKorea 2022: Key to predicting next pandemic lies in infectious diseases’ zoonotic component	BioWorld: The Daily Biopharmaceutical and Medical Technology News Source
Global	CEPI to provide up to $19.3M for variant-proof COVID-19 vaccine development by Bharat Biotech, University of Sydney and ExcellGene	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
China	Social insights on the implementation of One Health in zoonosis prevention and control: a scoping review	Infectious Diseases of Poverty \| Home page
Global	China to tighten export controls on dual-use technology	Nikkei Asia - Business, Politics, Economy and Tech News & Analysis
Global	Climate change could introduce humans to thousands of new viruses	Popular Science Homepage \| Popular Science
DRC	Third case of Ebola detected in northwestern DRC, WHO says	CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Global	RDC: l'évolution de l'épidémie d'Ebola dans l'Équateur est encourageante, selon l'OMS	rfi
Germany/G7	Statement of the G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group [see paragraphs 27-31}	Auswärtiges Amt - Auswärtiges Amt
Germany/G7	G7 Germany 2022 Foreign Ministers’ Communiqué (14 May 2022, Weissenhaus) [See paragraph 24]	France Diplomatie - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Global	Global COVID-19 Summit brings new policy, financial commitments to whole-of-society pandemic preparations	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
Hungary	Ebola-related virus discovered in bats in Hungary!	Home - Daily News Hungary
India	At UNSC, India underscores importance of biological weapons convention	News: Latest News, India News, World News, Opinion, Politics, Governance, Defence, Economy, Education \| ThePrint
India	Report: India might turn zoonotic disease hotspot	Deccan Chronicle - Latest India news \| Breaking news \| Hyderabad News \| World news \| Business news \| Politics \| Technology news
India	Kerala steps up surveillance to prevent Nipah virus outbreak	Latest News, India News, Breaking News, Today's News Headlines Online, English News Top Stories, Coronavirus News, IPL 2022 Updates\|The Indian Express
India	COVID-19 under control, Kerala's robust healthcare system now faces outbreak of tomato flu, other pathogens	Down To Earth \| Latest news, opinion, analysis on environment & science issues \| India, South Asia
Iraq	Great Event of FAO and Partners on Hemorrhagic Fever [EN/AR]	ReliefWeb - Informing humanitarians worldwide
Namibia	Announcement by Delegation of Namibia of Submission by Government of Namibia of Instrument of Accession to BWC at PGA Regional Parliamentary Workshop in Dar es Salaam, May 9-10th, 2022	Twitter
Nigeria	Buhari signs NABDA Establishment Bill 2022, says DG	https://www.environewsnigeria.com/
Philippines	U.S., PHILIPPINES TRAIN TO COUNTER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION	Homepage - U.S. Embassy in the Philippines
Global	Prioritizing Global Public Health Investments for COVID-19 Response in Real Time: Results from a Delphi Exercise	Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. \| Home
Global	Risques de cancer, Ebola, sage-femmes : le bulletin de santé hebdomadaire de l’Afrique	ACCUEIL ECOFIN
Russian Federation	Why the Whole World Should Worry About Desperate Putin's Preferred Weapon of Mass Destruction	CBN.com - The Christian Broadcasting Network
Global	Smallpox vaccination induces a substantial increase in commensal skin bacteria that promote pathology and influence the host response	Home - PLOS
Global	Synthetic Biology in Our Future from a One Health Perspective	Home - Impakter
Thailand	Behavioral–biological surveillance of emerging infectious diseases among a dynamic cohort in Thailand	BMC Infectious Diseases \| Home page
United Kingdom	The Role of Public Health Emergency Management in Biodefense: A COVID-19 Case Study	Home \| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
United Kingdom	Wildmeat consumption and zoonotic spillover: contextualising disease emergence and policy responses	The Lancet \| The best science for better lives
United Kingdom	Blacklisted Chinese Tech Found Inside Top Secret UK Lab	Bloomberg
Global	Ukraine: Amid fresh Russian claims, no trace of secret bioweapons programme	UN News \| Global perspective, human stories
Ukraine	War amid a Pandemic: The Public Health Consequences of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine	Center for Strategic and International Studies \|
United Nations	“The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)-The Road to the Ninth Review Conference" drew to a close in #RACVIAC today.	Twitter
United Nations	Provisional Agenda of Open Consultations of the 1540 Comprehensive Review (31 May-2 June 2022)	Welcome to the United Nations
United States	Zoonotic Spillover Is the Apocalypse You’ll Be Hearing About a Lot	The Washington Post
United States	A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents	West Point
United States	Report: Land-grant universities key to agricultural biosecurity	National Hog Farmer
United States	On Biological War	Army University Press Home
United States	Welder’s Anthrax: A Review of an Occupational Disease	MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals
United States	Plea deal offered to Quebec woman accused of mailing ricin to Donald Trump	Home \| The National Post Home Page \| National Post
United States	Phase 1 trial results of virus-like particle vaccine show promise against encephalitis viruses	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
United States	BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE BIOPREPAREDNESS INDUSTRIAL BASE	The MITRE Corporation
United States	Dual-Use Legislation And MLCCs	Med Device Online: Advancing human health by connecting people, organizations, and ideas in the design and development of medical devices.
United States	CNS Launches the US-Black Sea Nonproliferation Exchange Initiative	Middelbury Institute of International Studies at Monerey/a>
United States	Using birds to predict disease dynamics	WBIW
Vietnam	Vietnam works to perfect law on fighting proliferation of weapons of mass destruction	Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
Global	Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers	Nature

May2

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Global warming: Africa, Asia most at risk of zoonotic spillovers	Down To Earth \| Latest news, opinion, analysis on environment & science issues \| India, South Asia
Global	Bats can carry the Hendra and Nipah viruses with no ill effects: We need to know why	Horsetalk: equestrian news and research
Canada	Infectious diseases could increase as climate changes	Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis
Canada	Secret documents on fired Winnipeg scientists to be seen by Liberal and NDP committee after deal is struck	The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis
Canada	Animal Agriculture a Ticking Time-Bomb for Zoonotic Disease Transmission warns Animal Protection Party of Canada	GlobeNewswire
China	One Health: new evaluation framework launched	Nature
DRC	DRC: Plague outbreak in Ituri	ReliefWeb - Informing humanitarians worldwide
DRC	Second Ebola patient dies in northwestern Congo, WHO says	Reuters
DRC	Ebola virus disease	WHO \| World Health Organization
DRC	Ebola in DRC: WHO rules out risk of regional and international spread	Africanews
RDC	risque possible d'une propagation internationale du virus Ebola	Africanews
RDC	Ebola en RDC : l’OMS n’exclut par un risque de propagation régionale et internationale	Actualités, nouvelles et chroniques \| Le Journal de Montréal
RDC	Ebola à Mbandaka : le gouverneur appelle la population à la vigilance et au respect des mesures sanitaires	Radio Okapi \|
Nigeria	Official: Biosafety agency not created to stop GMOs	Nigeria Today
Nigeria	GMOs: Groups Commend Senate’s Move To Review NBMA Act	Breaking News in Nigeria Today - Tribune Online - Tribune Online -
United States	Army microbiologists leverage improved software to safeguard US forces	The Official Home Page of the United States Army
United States	First new U.S. case of human bird flu confirmed in Colorado prison	PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
United States	US Rep. Adam Kinzinger introduces measure to allow US military intervention in Ukraine if Russia uses chemical, biological weapons	Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment
United States	BARDA and Lumen Bioscience developing intranasal antibody treatment for COVID-19	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
United States	Bill would bar Russian and Belarussian nationals from DOE labs	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
Global	25th anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention – Foreign Minister Baerbock and OPCW Director-General Arias pay tribute to one of the most successful disarmament treaties	Auswärtiges Amt - Auswärtiges Amt
WHO	Quadripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed for a new era of One Health collaboration	WHO \| World Health Organization

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Biological Security - Weekly Update - May 2022