Feds to Devote New Funds to Fight Flu, Bioterror

20 August 2010

By Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today

The Obama administration announced that it plans to invest nearly $2 billion in measures to beef up the nation's ability to respond to bioterrorism and pandemic threats, including $822 million for pandemic influenza vaccine development.

"Our nation must have a system that is nimble and flexible enough to produce medical countermeasures quickly in the face of any attack or threat, whether it's a threat we know about today or a new one," Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a press release.

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