Title Accelerating the research, development, and acquisition of medical countermeasures against biological warfare agents : interim report / Committee on Accelerating the Research, Development, and Acquisition of Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents, Medical Follow-up Agency and Board on Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council of the National Academies.

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Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2003]

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Summary	Having the means to protect its military personnel against biological warfare agents is a long-standing objective for the United States. The development of safe and effective medical countermeasures -- vaccines, antitoxins, and prophylactic and therapeutic drugs -- against those agents is one of the essential components of the nation's biological defense efforts. Currently, the United States has a limited repertoire of licensed medical countermeasures that the Department of Defense (DoD) can use to protect members of the armed forces against more than a dozen bacteria, viruses, and toxins identified as possible biological warfare agents. As part of its Chemical and Biological Defense Program, DoD is engaged in research and development efforts aimed at making available a broader range of medical countermeasures.
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Subject	United States. Department of Defense.
	United States. Department of Defense.
	Biological weapons -- Health aspects.
	Biological weapons.
	Biological Warfare Agents.
	Biological Warfare -- prevention & control.
	Military Medicine -- methods.
	Civil Defense -- methods.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Committee on Accelerating the Research, Development, and Acquisition of Medical Countermeasures against Biological Warfare Agents, issuing body.
ISBN	0309582598
	9780309582599
	1280247843
	9781280247842

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