President signs vaccine legislation
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Posted: 10:15 AM EDT (1415 GMT)
President Bush on Wednesday signs Project BioShield into law during a Rose Garden ceremony.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday signed a bill to develop and stockpile vaccines and other antidotes to biological and chemical weapons.
The legislation provides the drug industry with incentives to research and develop bioterrorism countermeasures, speeds up the approval process of antidotes and, in an emergency, allows the government to distribute certain treatments before the Food and Drug Administration has approved them.
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