miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2019

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response



11/22/2019 12:00 AM EST


Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 11/22/2019. This 2016-2017 Integrated Summary is the first time the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) has included data on animal pathogens from a pilot study with the Food and Drug Administration's Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-LIRN). It is also the first time that NARMS has provided genomic information for Campylobacter and E. coli retail meat and food animal isolates. NARMS is a national public health surveillance system that monitors food-borne bacteria to determine if they are resistant to various antibiotics used in human and veterinary medicine. (Text)
11/14/2019 12:00 AM EST


Source: Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Published: 11/14/2019. This one-hour Forum event convened a panel of former governors who shared their unique insights into the challenges of leadership and natural disasters. They discussed what it takes to prepare, respond, and rebuild; what roles the public, local and state officials, and emergency responders play; what the intersection is between economies and disasters; and what climate change considerations need to be understood. (Video or Multimedia)
11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT


Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 11/2019. This six-page report provides highlights from a workshop held on October 11-12, 2018, for federal agency personnel and the committee that wrote the report on Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology to explore the report and its implications for what steps the Department of Defense might explore to develop options to mitigate potential misuse of synthetic biology capabilities. Participants discussed possible security concerns, and the timeframes of those concerns. (Text)

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