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...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, Bush signed BioShield into law. The measure set aside $5.6 billion for drug...
While the study made great strides in understanding the Ebola virus, there is still much work to be done, according to both Cunningham and Chandran...
...goal is to use this information to understand in more detail the molecular mechanism by which Ebola virus uses cell surface enzymes to invade cells,” Cunningham wrote...
...have an opportunity to pursue a therapeutic strategy,” Chandran said. “But it’s very early on. A lot more things have to happen before one could say that there’s a therapy for the Ebola virus...
...premature to think about using the inhibitors as anti-Ebola drugs until these studies are completed,” Cunningham wrote...