Biological_Terrorism

Biological Terrorism The President’s FY 2003 budget, which was delivered to Congress yesterday, increases funding by 319% to help defend America against bioterrorism. President Bush proposes $5.9 billion in bioterrorism funding, an increase of $4.5 billion from the 2002 level. These funds will be used to improve America’s state and local hospitals and health systems, improve response efforts, build up the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile, and develop new vaccines, medicines and diagnostic tests through aggressive R&D. Specifically, bioterrorism funding will focus on: Infrastructure: Strengthen state and local health systems, including enhancing medical communications and disease surveillance capabilities, to maximize their contribution to America’s overall biodefense. Response: Improve both specialized federal capabilities to coordinate response with state and local governments, and private capabilities in the event of a bioterrorist incident, and build up the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile. Science: Meet billion, bioterrorism, security, funding, state, response, medical, local, improve, capabilities, border, vaccines, through, tests, systems, stockpile, responders, president, pharmaceutical, one, new, national, medicines, including, homeland, health, emergency, diagnostic, bush’s, build, budget, america’s, aggressive, yesterday, visa, train, toughen, total, system, sustained, surveillance, strengthen, strategy, spending, specifically, specific, specialized, secure, research