Word: bioshield
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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...
Boston University Chancellor and acting President John Silber announced early last month that B.U. had submitted a proposal to build a new research facility with BioShield funding...
...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...
...serious side effects from smallpox vaccines. The absence of such a program is a big reason why fewer than 13,000 of the Bush administration's target of 500,000 health care and emergency workers have received the shot so far. The bill would also kick-start Bush's bioshield initiative, designed to speed the availability of new vaccines for biological threats...