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  • But the pharmaceutical industry has virtually ignored the so-called Bioshield project, mainly because they won't profit from it.

    CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2005 2005

  • The next stop was a local shop called The Natural Abode, and they had a ton of low-VOC stains in amazing colors, by a brand called Bioshield.

    Eco-Friendly Stains and Paints to Revive Old Furniture 2009

  • Emergency-use authorizations were begun under the Project Bioshield Act of 2004 involving U.S. responses to pandemics or bioterrorism.

    FDA Approves Special Use of Drugs, Tests for Swine Flu 2009

  • In 2003, the Bush administration asked Congress for just $100 million to prepare for Avian flu, compared to a whopping $6 billion for its war on terror-friendly "Project Bioshield."

    Jeremy Scahill: Germ Warfare: The Second Front of Scooter Libby, Judy Miller and Dick Cheney 2008

  • The rush to study plant-based vaccines, which are cheaper and could also be used in Third World countries to prevent plague and cholera, comes just as U.S. vaccine readiness is tested with the flu debacle, complaints that Homeland Security's Bioshield program is ineffective and reports of a dubious anthrax vaccine tested on the military during the gulf war.

    PERISCOPE 2007

  • The rush to study plant-based vaccines, which are cheaper and could also be used in Third World countries to prevent plague and cholera, comes just as U.S. vaccine readiness is tested with the flu debacle, complaints that Homeland Security's Bioshield program is ineffective and reports of a dubious anthrax vaccine tested on the military during the gulf war.

    VACCINES: PETUNIA POWER 2007

  • The majority of common paint brands now provide these kinds of alternatives, and some manufacturers, such as AFM Safecoat and Bioshield have built their businesses around the greener choices.

    GREEN BUILDING 101: Materials & Resources, Part II | Inhabitat 2006

  • Nicknamed "Bioshield Two," the bill's primary sponsor, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), claims the Act will give the Department of Health and Human Services "additional authority and resources to partner with the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines."

    Pharma To Republicans - Time To Pay Up Again 2005

  • So at this point, you are stil decades away from preparedness for all the things that Bioshield is supposed to do.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2005 2005

  • And they have avoided the Bioshield project like the plague.

    CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2005 2005

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