Word: bioshield
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...listened to President Bush on Jan. 28, 2003, you might think the U.S. would have a bustling biodefense industry by now. In a State of the Union speech laced with references to terrorism, Bush asked Congress for nearly $6 billion to fund Project BioShield, a program he said would "quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague." That sounded like a good idea, considering the havoc wrought by the anthrax mailings of 2001, which killed five people and set off a near panic for treatment. So Congress anted up. Eighteen months later...
...January of last year, Bush unveiled Project BioShield, a $6 billion budgetary allotment to fund research on biological defense...
With heightened fears of bioterrorism in the wake of Sept. 11, the Bush administration has more than doubled federal funding for programs against terror, with nearly $6 billion allotted to a new program called Project BioShield...
President Bush kick-started the effort to improve our medical defenses against biowarfare by launching Project BioShield last January. Its aim is to make Washington the guaranteed buyer for vaccines and drugs to combat bioterrorism. If it gets under way next month as planned--Senate passage still awaits--billions of federal dollars will be available to develop, purchase and stockpile those drugs over the next 10 years. The exact dollar amount remains unclear, but when the House approved Project BioShield in July by a vote of 421-2, it moved to cap the figure at $5.6 billion over 10 years...
...researchers have also submitted proposals for BioShield funding for a BSL-3 laboratory—a slightly lower-security facility that would allow researchers to work with the tuberculosis and HIV viruses. Unlike the BSL-4 facility, this proposed facility would not be unique to the area, and a few already exist in the Longwood area...