Biological Security - Weekly Update - April 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.

April25

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Africa's COVID-19 cases pass 11.4 mln: Africa CDC	English--People's Daily Online
Algeria	Genetic and geographical delineation of zoonotic vector-borne helminths of canids	Nature
Denmark	Study finds superbug C. difficile can jump between pigs and humans, providing evidence of zoonotic spread	PHYS.ORG
DRC	New Ebola outbreak declared in DRC after single case confirmed	CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
DRC	As a new Ebola outbreak emerges in the DRC, the IRC calls for swift action and funding for frontline aid agencies to stop the spread (April 24, 2022)	ReliefWeb - Informing humanitarians worldwide
RDC	Nouvelle épidémie d’Ebola déclarée en RDC, un mort	Anadolu Agency/
Kazakhstan	Building One Health Preparedness Capacities: Implementation of the National Bridging Workshop Roadmap in Kazakhstan	WHO \| World Health Organization
Malaysia	Khairy: Increase in zoonotic malaria infections a new threat in Malaysia	Malay Mail \| Breaking News, Malaysia, World, Lifestyle News
United Kingdom	'Eco fanatics' or lone wolf terrorists could create a pandemic worse than Covid in a university lab, warns ex president of Royal Society	Home \| Daily Mail Online
United Kingdom	Man disqualified for driving while high on cannabis in Porton Down	Salisbury Journal
United States	Pandemic chaos proves the world isn't prepared for biological warfare, experts say	CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster
United States	Heat Biologics' New Biodefense Facility to Create 500 Kansas Jobs	Biotech, Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research Jobs \| BioSpace
United States	CDC launches Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics to improve public health data response	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
United States	Virtual Meeting and Listening Session on Oversight Framework for Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens	National Institutes of Health (NIH) \| Turning Discovery Into Health
United States	Four Americans Were Infected With a Virus Variant Seen in Mink	The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos
United States	2022 Next Gen for Biosecurity Competition Challenge: Developing New Verification Strategies for the Biological Weapons Convention	Home - The Nuclear Threat Initiative

April18

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Africa CDC chief warns Africa to adhere to strict COVID-19 prevention despite decreasing new infections	China.org.cn - China news, business, travel & language courses
Global	Biosafety in Microbiology Laboratories	Medical News \| Medical Articles
BWC ISU	Advance copy of Outcome/Final Document of PrepCom to Ninth RevCon	United Nations
BWC ISU	BWC Ninth Review Conference re-scheduled to November 2022	Home · Indico
Canada	Backyard chicken owners have a role to play in preventing spread of avian flu, expert says	CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster
Canada	Food industry adjusting to large outbreak of avian flu in Canada, around the world	CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster
Global	Experts share insights from One Health approach in food safety	Food Safety News
India	ICMR-NIV scientists find presence of IgG antibodies against Nipah in 51 bat samples from southern India	The Indian Express
Kazakhstan	Experts Discuss Kazakhstan’s Initiative to Create Global Agency to Address Biosecurity Issues	Home - The Astana Times
Global	Scientists can prevent future pandemics by working on One Health approach	The Federal
Global	Two Emerging Viral Adversaries—Nipah And Hendra Virus—May Soon Meet Their Match	Forbes
Ukraine	How a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian ‘bioweapons labs’ took off	News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition \| The Guardian
United Nations	Operationalising Article VII of the Biological Weapons Convention	United Nations
United States	Commentary: The dangerous thread connecting avian flu, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine	union-bulletin.com \| We bring the Valley to you
United States	They warned about pandemics before Covid-19. Now they have a $100 billion plan to stop the next one.	Vox - Understand the News
United States	With ‘Far Worse’ Threats Lurking, Plan Rallies Agencies to End Pandemics Within Decade	Homeland Security Today
United States	Study advances understanding of bacterial bioterrorism agent	PHYS.ORG
United States	State biodefense grant funds local research of antiviral nasal spray	Times Union - Times Union
United States	Opening this spring in Kansas: A high-tech lab researching livestock diseases	Investigate Midwest - The Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingInvestigate Midwest \| The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Global	Why the world has no universal biosafety standards	The BMJ: Leading Medical Research, News, Education, Opinion

April13

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	COVID-19: Infections in Africa could be 97 times higher than reported – WHO	Premium Times - Nigeria leading newspaper for news, investigations
Africa	Academics want to build capacity for One Health strategy	Global Edition
BWC ISU	Civil society organizations are vital for a world free of bioweapons because they educate, raise awareness, support #1972BWC implementation, contribute to an inclusive global biosecurity scene	Twitter
BWC ISU	The #1972BWC #BWCPrepCom has just concluded with the adoption of the final report!	Twitter
DRC	Fifteen “EPI-Biostat Fellows” commence Master’s training at the Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH)	Home – Africa CDC
DRC	Ebola virus: DRC field laboratories’ rapid response	Nature
Ghana/Nigeria	Ghanaian, Nigeria share notes on biotechnology for improved agriculture productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa	MyJoyOnline.com - Ghana's most comprehensive website. Credible, fearless and independent journalism
India	ICMR studying bats to ward off threat of zoonotic diseases	The Federal
Nigeria	Nigeria and Ghana to boost Biosafety regulatory system	TDPel Media
Nigeria	‘We don’t want Nigeria to be dumping ground for GMOs’	The Guardian Nigeria News
Spain	What a 3,000-year-old body in Spain reveals about the origins of the worst pandemic in history	EL PAÍS English Edition
United Kingdom	Former MOD researcher takes a trip to old base thanks to Romsey care home Woodley Grange staff	The Romsey Advertiser
Ukraine	Did Russia really use chemical weapons in Ukraine? Experts are sceptical	The Guardian
Ukraine	Ukraine War: US 'deeply concerned' at report of Mariupol chemical attack	BBC - Homepage
Ukraine	Zelensky: Ukraine takes threat of possible Russian chemical weapon use ‘very seriously’	The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill
United States	FACT SHEET: The Biden Administration’s Commitment to Global Health in the FY 2023 President’s Budget	The White House
United States	Bipartisan group of senators introduce Preventing Future Pandemics Act to counter zoonotic disease spread	Homeland Preparedness News - The Leading Source
United States	Portman, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reduce the Risk of Zoonotic Disease Transmission, Support Conservation	Front Page \| Senator Rob Portman
United States	50th Anniversary of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention	U.S. Department of State - United States Department of State
United States	How a QAnon conspiracy theory about Ukraine bioweapons became mainstream disinformation	CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster
United States	Study advances understanding of bacterial bioterrorism agent	Phys.org
United States	Commerce Department Expands Restrictions on Exports to Russia and Belarus in Response to Ongoing Aggression in Ukraine	U.S. Department of Commerce
United States	Send in the Blow Flies: Using Insects to Sample Areas for Chemical Warfare Agents	Global Biodefense \| News on Pathogens and Preparedness
United States	Preventing, controlling spread of animal diseases focus of forum at Penn State	The Pennsylvania State University \| Penn State
United States	NIH Awards $3M Grant to Albany Med for Plague Vaccine Development	Global Biodefense \| News on Pathogens and Preparedness
United States	$15 Million Announced Through NY's Biodefense Commercialization Fund	WENY News
Global	Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic — and what we can do to stop it	Vox - Understand the News

April5

Country	Topic	Source
Africa	Applications invited for PAVM- Fogarty Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program.	Home – Africa CDC
Africa	Africa's COVID-19 cases near 11.34 mln: Africa CDC	China News
Africa	FACT SHEET: United States Partnership with the African Union – Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention	US White House
BWC ISU	Resumption of 9th BWC RevCon PrepCom Meetings	Twitter
China	North China's Inner Mongolia reports plague among mice, issues level IV warning	Global Times
Global	Convention on Biological Diversity: Draft recommendation to focus on One Health approach, COVID-19	Down To Earth \| Latest news, opinion, analysis on environment & science issues \| India, South Asia
DRC	Analysis of individual-level data from 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo	Nature
DRC	Suspected bubonic plague cases in Ituri province	Outbreak News Today -
India	Zoonotic diseases:NIV keeps eye out on ‘next big threat’	News - Latest News, Breaking News, Bollywood, Sports, Business and Political News \| Times of India
India	Bats host most virulent, but not most dangerous zoonotic viruses: Study	Business News, Finance News, India News, BSE/NSE News, Stock Markets News, Sensex NIFTY, Budget 2022
Myanmar	‘A risky business’: Online illegal wildlife trade continues to soar in Myanmar	MongaBay
Global	Researchers Flip Pharmaceutical AI to Create 40,000 Biowarfare Agents	VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.
Global	Scientists recruit Nipah survivors in bid to create first vaccine	The Telegraph - Telegraph Online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph
Global	Six paths forward to a “pandemic treaty”	Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
United Kingdom	Baas Becking meets One Health	Nature
United Kingdom	Gruinard Island: Fire on island used for Anthrax experiments	BBC - Homepage
Ukraine	U.S. quietly approves more aid as Ukraine braces for ‘chemical and biological’ attacks	Politics, Policy, Political News- POLITICO
Ukraine	Disarming Russia's Bioweapons Disinformation	Think Global Health
Ukraine	A biological weapons threat to Ukraine is a biological weapons threat to the world	Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
United Nations	Malaysia Point of Contact updated	Welcome to the United Nations
United States	FACT SHEET: The Biden Administration’s Historic Investment in Pandemic Preparedness and Biodefense in the FY 2023 President’s Budget	The White House
United States	Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie D. Jenkins Announces Kenneth D. Ward as U.S. Special Representative to the Biological Weapons Convention	U.S. Department of State - United States Department of State
United States	US providing Ukraine with supplies in case Russia uses chemical weapons	New York Post – Breaking News, Top Headlines, Photos & Videos
United States	Biden seeks $2.1B funding boost for FDA, part of pan-agency pandemic preparedness plan	FIERCE Biotech
United States	Popular podcasters spread Russian disinformation about Ukraine biolabs	Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
United States	What to Know About the Bird Flu Outbreak	The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos
Global	Welcoming David Relman to the Science and Security Board	Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Global	What makes biological weapons so dangerous, and does Russia have them?	The Economist - World News, Politics, Economics, Business & Finance

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Biological Security - Weekly Update - April 2022