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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.

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  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

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  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

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  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