Monday, September 27, 2010

Biodefense System Overhaul Was Necessary, HHS Secretary Says


By Martin Matishak

WASHINGTON -- A planned $1.9 billion revamp of the nation's medical countermeasure enterprise was overdue as government scientists were using decades old technology to confront new and emerging biological threats, a senior Obama administration official said here last week (see GSN, Sept. 24).

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Countermeasures are typically defined as drugs and vaccines that ward against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents and emerging infectious diseases.

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