Biological Security - Weekly Update - September 2021

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.

September27

Africa	Africa’s COVID-19 cases near 8.27 mln: Africa CDC
Africa	The Africa CDC joins the Global Citizen Live concert to push for vaccine equity.
Africa	New studies propose policy changes for Ebola vaccination in Africa
Africa	Nkengasong's bittersweet departure from Africa CDC
Africa	Devex CheckUp: What Nkengasong’s departure means for Africa CDC
Africa	Opinion: How health workers are leading Africa’s COVID-19 response
Africa	Africa CDC, IFRC, and USAU call for Equitable Vaccine Coverage in Africa
Canada/PAHO	Canadian medical humanitarian wins PAHO Award for Health Services Management and Leadership
Canada	?Coronavirus: portrait des accidents de laboratoire au Canada
Canada	2021 One Health and Zoonoses Symposium
Canada	New Algorithm Helps Target, Detect, and Isolate Pathogens
Canada/ICAO	Bioterrorism and The Year Of Security Culture in Aviation
Côte d’Ivoire	Communiqué du conseil des ministres du Mercredi 22 Septembre 2021 "....7- Au titre du Ministère des Ressources Animales et Halieutiques en liaison avec le Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances, le Ministère du Budget et du Portefeuille de l’Etat, le Ministère des Eaux et Forêts, le Ministère de la Santé, de l’Hygiène Publique et de la Couverture Maladie Universelle et le Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable ;Le Conseil a adopté une communication relative à la lutte contre la grippe aviaire ou Influenza Aviaire Hautement Pathogène en Côte d’Ivoire...."
France	Virus Nipah : c'est quoi, transmission, symptômes, mortalité
Ghana	MESTI agencies discuss financing science research with parliamentary committee
IAEA	Preparing for Zoonotic Outbreaks: Scientific Forum Opens
IAEA	Improved Coordination, Collaboration and Communication Key to Prevent Zoonotic Outbreaks: Scientific Forum Concludes
IAEA	IAEA and PREZODE Pave the Way for Future Cooperation to Prevent Zoonotic Diseases
IAEA	IAEA: a ‘Rapid Reaction Force for Good’, Director General Says
Inde	Un virus extrêmement mortel se propage en Inde
India	Nipah virus in Kerala, India: WHO details
Jordan	Jordan partakes multinational study to examine spread of infectious disease by migratory birds
Madagascar	Pneumonic plague in Madagascar update, More cases confirmed
Global	New framework needed to explore links between evolved pathogen tolerance and emerging infections
Nigeria	US partners Nigeria to strengthen health security
Panama/US	DTRA Partners in Panama to Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction
Philippines	BRP Antonio Luna holds chemical attack defense drills
RDC	Ebola : une nouvelle étude fait craindre le retour du virus
Senegal	First West African Agriculture Technology Park Opens Doors to Public
South Africa	Biosecurity: Ready, Set Go for New Ministerial Task Team
United Kingdom	Op-Ed: A lesson from Ebola in 2015 will be key to ending COVID-19
United Kingdom	Top science advisers: Prepare now for next pandemic
Global	Understanding pathogen tolerance in wild animals key to pandemic preparedness
United Nations	National Point of Contact for all matters related to UNSCR 1540 from Côte d’Ivoire is added
United States	Global COVID-?19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better
United States	Only On 7: Inside DC's bioterrorism lab 20 years after anthrax attacks
United States	What Tri-Cities scientists are doing to defeat the next cyber threat and terrorist attack
United States	A Deterrence By Denial Strategy For Addressing Biological Weapons
United States	Applying game-based learning to animal disease preparedness
United States	Wyoming woman catches rare pneumonic plague from cats
United States	New York City reports 14 leptospirosis cases, one death in 2021
United States	State of Technology: Crucial Homeland Solutions Come from National Labs
United States	NJ Rep. Chris Smith: Amendment directs the GAO to probe whether the DOD ever weaponized ticks with Lyme disease
United States	Chemical weapons destruction shut down by COVID because of full hospitals
WHO/Nigeria	Leader of WHO’s new pandemic hub: improve data flow to extinguish outbreaks
WHO	Webinar: One Health Approaches to Antimicrobial Resistance- Regional and Country Experiences (15:00 CET)
WHO	New course on Rabies & One Health launched on OpenWHO

September20

Africa	Fighting a Pandemic, While Launching Africa’s Health Revolution
Global	Africa’s COVID-19 infections reach 8,119,719 as deaths hit 205,813: Africa CDC
Africa	Less than 3.5 % of Africans vaccinated against COVID
Africa	African Union and EDCTP sign Memorandum of Understanding to promote new paradigm in health
Africa	Africa CDC and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Collaboration to Strengthen Laboratory Network Capacity Across African Union Member States
BWC ISU	Webinar Workshop on BWC National Implementation Measures for CARICOM States
Cambodia	Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19
Canada	Relay & Fio Announce Agreement with Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS) to Market a Combined Solution for COVID-19 and Biosecurity Market Needs
Canada	World Animal Protection says animal welfare is an election issue
Canada/China	Chinese Major-General worked with fired scientist at Canada’s top infectious disease lab
Canada/China	Opinion: Canadians must know what our lab’s role was in COVID’s origins
China	Amid tensions over Covid-19 origins, China and the world need to cooperate more on biosafety
China/Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)	SCO to combat development of bio weapons, counter terrorism — declaration
China	Why it's so tricky to trace the origin of COVID-19
China/Japan	China Focus: 80 years on, hideous Japanese germ warfare should never be forgotten
Global	Covid heats up debate over biological weapons convention
Deutschland	Mutmaßlicher Anschlagsplan in Hagen: Ohne Hilfe ausländischer Dienste ist Deutschland „blind“
DRC	‘Ebola is defeated,’ says Congolese professor who discovered virus
DRC	Congo: Pathogen sequencing for infectious disease epidemics
DRC	Feared and forgotten, Congo's Ebola orphans work to survive
European Union	Recast EU Dual-Use Regulation has now entered into force
European Union	The E.U. adopts a new strategy to counter future pandemics
European Union	Devex CheckUp: How the EU is preparing for the next pandemic
Europe	Commission pushes global health board, resists WHO-FAO merger
Global	Fashions to die for: The fur trade’s role in spreading zoonotic disease
Global	Fighting Future Pandemic Threats
Ghana	Poultry farmers urged to observe best practices
Global	Guinée : comment le pays est-il venu à bout du virus de Marburg ?
Guinea	Guinea declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak
Guinea/West Africa	Ebola Can Hide in Humans for Years Before Killing Again, New Research Finds
India	Experts Say Nipah Virus Has Potential To Be Another Pandemic — With A Higher Death Toll
India	Inside Kerala’s Pazhur Village – Where Nipah Broke Out And Was Contained
India	TN govt's preventive measures kept Zika, Nipah virus at bay: Minister
Global	International Organizations, Vaccine Manufacturers Agree to Intensify Cooperation to Deliver COVID-19 Vaccines
Japan/China	Japanese company that exported machinery capable of making bio-weapons to China sues over arrests
Kenya	Kenya Commissions Over 30 Renovated Laboratories At KEMRI
Laos	Bats in Laos caves harbor closest relatives to COVID-19 virus
Global	Liberia Concludes Three-Day Training to Strengthen Event Based Surveillance through Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS)
Madagascar	Madagascar's Pneumonic Plague Turns Deadly
MENA/SEA/Canada	Building resilience against agro-terrorism and agro-crime threats to animal health
Nigeria	Buhari tasks global community on biodiversity conservation
Nigeria	US-CDC trains 40 Nigerian Public Health officials on Emergency Response
Nigeria	Nigeria faces one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years
Nigeria	Neglected tropical diseases: Lagos to scale up intervention in endemic LGAs, wards-Abayomi
Nigeria	Mamora lauds NIMR as it unveils Lassa, yellow fever diagnostic kits
Nigeria	Nigeria reports four new confirmed Lassa fever cases, 3 deaths
Global	Nigeria - COVID-19 exposes inadequacy of lab facilities — SOTLAN
Nigeria	Gbajabiamila Seeks More Women Participation in Politics
Nigeria	Nigerian heads new hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence
Global	9/11 changed aviation security forever. Will coronavirus and bioterrorism fuel new threats?
OIE	One Health Coordinator for the OIE Sub-Regional Representation for South-East Asia- Bangkok,Thailand
Global	Plague is not a disease of the past so let’s find a treatment that works for all health systems today
RDC	Nord-Kivu :l'UNFPA et le PNSR lancent ce mardi une formation des prestataires des services de santé et des sage-femmes sur la Protection et le Contrôle des Infections en vue limiter les menaces de Covid-19 et Ebola
RDC	RDC : le Dr Muyembe présente Ebanga, médicament pour le traitement d’Ebola
RDC	"Ebola est vaincue" assure le professeur congolais Muyembe
Global	RDC : Nouveau médicament contre le virus Ebola
RDC	Ebola: portrait d'un virus tueur
RDC	Liberté provisoire pour l'ancien ministre Eteni Longondo
RDC	RDC: le gouvernement veut que Doubase C et Manacovid soient reconnus internationalement comme traitement contre la Covid-19
Russian Federation/Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)	Over 5,500 servicemen to participate in Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s drills
Sierra Leone	Ebola vaccine regimen generates strong immune response in children and adults in a clinical trial in Sierra Leone
South Sudan	Improving Public Health Surveillance and Response in South Sudan
South Sudan	EU and WHO setting up a molecular diagnostic laboratory in Wau for the detection of COVID-19
Global	Study reveals role of globalization, zoonosis in spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants
United Kingdom	The terrorist who killed a police officer with a kitchen knife currently languishing in Wakefield's 'Monster Mansion'
United Kingdom	NTE 2021/12: new dual-use regulation EU 2021/821
United Nations	Eating wild meat significantly increases zoonotic disease risk: UN report
United States	A Virus-Hunter’s Advice on Dealing with China’s Resistance on Covid
United States	Beyond Biological Defense: Maintaining The U.S. Biotechnology Advantage
United States	One Health: A world-changing approach
United States	Wyoming reports rare case of human pneumonic plague
United States	Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Pandemic Case Management Suite RFI
United States	Biological Deterrence For The Shadow War
Global	US - A functional society would protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19
United States	Bill Gates’s dark prediction for the next pandemic
United States	State of Biodefense: How America Has Not Addressed the Threat
United States	The White House's $65 billion pandemic preparedness plan falls short
United States	Time for Congress to make a down payment to prevent future pandemic tragedies
United States	US agencies failed to learn important lessons about pandemic response before covid-19, GAO finds
United States	State of WMD: How 9/11 Impacted the Mission of National Security Laboratories
United States	BARDA taps procurement option for approximately $112.5 million of SIGA oral smallpox treatment
United States	BARDA Transatlantic Taskforce launches fourth phase to counter antimicrobial resistance
United States	Ex-UM professor charged with shipping genetic equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions
United States	Rat Bite Fever: Deadly Rat-Borne Disease is Spreading Quickly in the US
United States	Anthrax was the COVID-19 of 2001
United States	Anthrax and Botulinum: Worrisome Bioterrorist Agents
United States	The Battle to Conquer Smallpox
United States	Bioterrorist Attacks: A Brief History
United States	Military programs aiming to end pandemics forever
United States	Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine home to new Animal Health and Agro-/Bio-Defense Program
United States	How BASIS grew into the BioWatch system
United States	Governor Hochul Announces Opening of New York State's New $40 Million Biodefense Commercialization Fund
United States	Lions and tigers test COVID-19 positive at the National Zoo in Washington, DC
United States	‘The Hot Zone: Anthrax’ Reminds Viewers of a ‘Tense & Terrifying Time’
WHO	Webinar: One Health Approaches to Antimicrobial Resistance- Regional and Country Experiences

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September13

Africa	Latest updates on the COVID-19 crisis from Africa CDC
Africa	1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa
Global	Anthrax infections and it’s dark bioterrorism history
Australia	Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to help prevent epidemics before they spread
Botswana	Botswana announces suspected outbreak of bird flu
Canada	Canadian engineers and scientists develop technology to measure, track, and reduce COVID risks inside buildings
Canada/États-Unis	Le procureur proposera un accord sur la peine de Pascale Ferrier
Canada/US	Plea deal possible for Quebec woman accused of sending Donald Trump poison
Chinal	China developing ethnic-specific bioweapons to kill people based on race, says top expert
China	Chinese ambassador calls for relaunching BWC verification protocol negotiation
DRC	Meningitis outbreak kills 129 in north-east Congo
Ghana	Upper West Region records bird flu case
Guinea	Marburg in Guinea: the value of lessons from managing other haemorrhagic outbreaks
India	Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India
India	Study lists Kerala as hot spot of wildlife zoonotic diseases......
India	Zoonotic diseases: Kerala still lacks ‘One Health’ model
Liberia	Liberia concludes a three-day workshop to review National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) Implementation and progress since 2017
Nigeria	Red alert over bird flu outbreak
Nigeria	Beyond The Petri Dish: Preparing Labs That Could Change The Next Epidemic
North Korea	Soldiers march in hazmat suits during North Korea military parade
Philippines	Biosafety lab to be launched in preparation for the creation of PHL vaccine institute
RDC	Ebola : exploitations et abus sexuels, le rapport d'investigation attendu le 28 septembre
Senegal	33 sapeurs-pompiers formés à la lutte contre les armes de destruction massive : Le Sénégal tient sa compagnie radiologique, biologique et chimique
Spain	Spain: Veterinarian contracts cutaneous anthrax, possibly linked to necropsy
Global	The grave risk of lab-created potentially pandemic pathogens
United Kingdom	G7 London interior commitments (accessible version)
United States	The Forgotten Biological Terror of 9/11
United States	A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy for the 21st Century
United States	Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense lauds Biden’s Pandemic Preparedness Plan, but urges more funding
United States	Report: 20 years after 9/11, America still not fully prepared for public health emergencies
United States	Biodefense Commercialization Fund open for applicants
United States	Anthrax Attack attorneys reflect on upcoming 20th anniversary
United States	Preparing for the Next Biological Threat
United States	A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy For the 21st Century
United States	The Next Pandemic: New Bill Looks Ahead to Counteract Novel Threats
United States	Deadly " Ebola-Like" Disease for Rabbits is Spreading and it's Killing Them Fast
United States	NIH Documents Provide New Evidence U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan
WHO/Ireland	Social and economic consequences of pandemic landed 'on shoulders of women'
WHO	WHO says Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
WHO	WHO strengthens COVID-19 response by improving regional vaccine production, distributing vaccines to the vulnerable and delivers essential supplies

September7

Africa	Lessons Africa could offer in response to future pandemics
Africa	Africa's COVID-19 cases surpass 7.89 mln: Africa CDC
BWC ISU	second week of #BWCMX starts today at 10:00 CEST
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Biological Security - Weekly Update - September 2021