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University of Florida Researchers Will Work on Improving Bioterror Defenses.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

By Robyn Suriano, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 8--University of Florida researchers will be working on new antiviral drugs and a safer vaccine for smallpox as part of a $45 million grant to improve the nation's defenses against potential biological weapons and existing threats, such as SARS and West Nile.

Announced last week, the five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will be shared by UF and a far-flung consortium of universities, government laboratories and research centers in the Southeast.

The scientists plan to develop new or improved vaccines for smallpox, anthrax, the plague and other illnesses; better laboratory tests to diagnose a variety of diseases; and new drugs to...

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