[CPEO-MEF] BIODEFENSE: Pentagon shifts strategy

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$1b effort yields no bioterror defenses
Mass. labs in line to join scaled-back Pentagon program

By Bryan Bender
Boston Globe
January 17, 2011

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is scaling back one of its largest efforts to 
develop treatments for troops and civilians infected in a germ warfare 
attack after a $1 billion, five-year program fell short of its primary goal.

Even the heavy infusion of research cash and a unified effort by 
university labs and biotech companies from Boston to California were 
insufficient to break through limitations of genetic science, according 
to government officials and specialists in biological terrorism.

Instead, the Pentagon's next $1 billion for the Transformational Medical 
Technologies program will focus on better ways to identify mutant 
versions of Ebola, Marburg, and other deadly viruses. Those are among 
the genetically modified agents that officials fear could be used by 
terrorists or rogue states against urban or military targets.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/01/17/after_1b_spent_pentagon_shifts_strategy_on_bioterror_threats/?page=1

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