Foreign
Desk
| April 16, 2003, Wednesday
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RESPIRATORY ILLNESS: TREATMENT; Persuading
Big Business To Help Look For a Vaccine
By ANDREW POLLACK (NYT) 705 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 6 , Column 6
ABSTRACT
- Federal government is trying to enlist
drug makers and biotechnology companies in
search for drugs and vaccines to fight SARS,
respiratory illness that has sickened
thousands of people and killed 154, but may
run into same problems it has been having
trying to recruit companies to develop
defenses against bioterrorism agents; drug
companies have not become involved in
biodefense efforts because it is unclear how
big overall market will be for such drugs
and vaccines; may be similarly reluctant to
take on 5- or 10-year research program for
SARS, which may turn out to be self-limiting
epidemic (M) The government is trying to
enlist drug makers and biotechnology
companies in the search for drugs and
vaccines to fight SARS, the respiratory
illness that has sickened thousands of
people and killed 154.
But some analysts say the government will
have some of the same problems it has been
having trying to recruit companies to
develop defenses against bioterrorism
agents.
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