Article: Industry Responding Better To Bird Flu Than BioShield.

Washington Editor

WASHINGTON - By most measures, the federal government has had more success with drawing the drug industry to the pandemic flu issue than to biodefense. The question is, Why?

Some observers point to a learning curve. The Department of Health and Human Services, the principal government agency in charge of dispersing dollars to address both of the threats, has learned lessons from Project BioShield and applied them to better handle pandemic flu-related programs.

For example, HHS decided not to put all its eggs in one basket, and instead recently doled out more than $1 billion worth of contracts to five companies for cell-based ...

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