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“British Scientists Make Half a Million Doses of Anthrax”

U.K. Independent (www.independent.co.uk) (07/18/01) P. 6; Connor,

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In the United Kingdom, scientists at the British government’s Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR) in Porton Down, Wiltshire, have resumed production of an anthrax vaccine designed to protect military personnel against one of the most lethal agents in the arsenal of biological weapons.  The vaccine will be produced at a new facility, which took two years to build at a cost of 2 million British pounds.  The British Ministry of Defence has received about 500,000 doses of the vaccine, and the vaccine will be offered on a voluntary basis to troops serving in the Middle East and in other areas of the world thought to be at risk of biological warfare.  CAMR is believed to be one of the few places on Earth where anthrax vaccine can be made.  The Western world’s other production facility, located in the United States, does not currently have a license from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is shut down at the moment.

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