In an effort to prevent bioterrorism attacks, just in case, SIGA Technologies Inc SIGA started working on the smallpox treatment, Tpoxx, after the 9/11 terrorist attack that shook the world. FDA ...

A new federal blueprint for rapidly vaccinating millions of people against the deadly smallpox virus shows in stark and daunting detail that Houston and other major cities across the country are not ...

Three years ago, a biology lesson about smallpox would likely have centered on health officials’ boast that a worldwide campaign had eradicated the longtime scourge. And a classroom lesson about ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug intended to treat smallpox — a move that could halt a lethal pandemic if the virus were to be released as a terrorist bioweapon or ...

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This paper analyzes Section 304 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, [1] as amended in April 2003, [2] which sets forth liability protection for participants in the current national smallpox ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved the first drug for the treatment of smallpox, even if the disease has been considered eradicated since 1980. The approval comes in response to ...

President Bush wants a new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. He has also signed legislation devoting $4.6 billion to battle bioterrorism. But the one simple and most important thing that ...