Reinventing Project BioShield
2 September 2011
By Jon Cohen, Science
The government's efforts to
protect the public from bioattacks have been hampered by ongoing
struggles to mesh military and civilian strategies
In fall 2001, a few weeks after
terrorists shook the world by fl ying commercial airliners into the
Twin Towers, a second wave of attacks hit the United States. They
caused far less harm but triggered powerful aftershocks of fear.
Envelopes containing anthrax spores, sent to several news outlets
and two U.S. senators, infected 22 people and killed five of them.
Protecting against future bioterrorism attacks became a top
priority for the government, and in his 2003 State of the Union
address President George W. Bush announced the creation of Project
BioShield. This "major research and production effort to guard our
people against bioterrorism," Bush said, would "quickly make
available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like
anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola, and plague."
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