Fighting Diseases of Terror
June 26, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
Biologists at Fort Detrick’s newest biodefense center may be asked to make some of the world’s deadliest microbes even more dangerous than they already are.
One of the biologists’ jobs, according to chief scientist Bernard Courtney, will be to create pathogens to match strains that terrorists are clandestinely producing and then develop vaccines and drugs to combat them.
