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Article: Scientists Work to Develop Drugs That Could Protect against Radioactive Bombs.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2002
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Byline: Ronald Kotulak
Jun. 12--Scientists are working to develop drugs that may protect people against radiation poisoning, hoping to partially defuse the fear factor that makes radioactive "dirty bombs" such a potent terrorist weapon.
The disclosure of an anti-radiation compound under development at the University of Chicago comes on the heels of other recent scientific advances designed to defang biological and radiological terrorist weapons.
The federal government has placed a rush order with drug companies to make a safer smallpox vaccine in quantities to protect every U.S. resident. And researchers have discovered that early anthrax ...