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“NIH Breaks Down How It Will Spend Bioterrorism Funds”

Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com) (02/19/02) P. A4

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will spend $600 million of its $1.7 billion bioterrorism funding on the discovery of vaccines for anthrax, smallpox, and other infections, said National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease head Dr.  Anthony Fauci.  Additional funding will go to pay for new facilities to safely study microbes and human immune defenses.

Fauci noted that diseases such as influenza and AIDS kill far more people than the five who died in bioterror attacks last fall, and thus he asserted that it is necessary to spend the

funds on research that would have greater use in fighting infection.  “Bioterror agents are just another emerging, or re-emerging disease,” he told members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Sunday.

 

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