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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has asked Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc. to develop a vaccine that protects against Ebola and Marburg viruses.
The Germantown-based company will get $22 million under the multiyear contract, and if options are exercised, could get $65 million.
Ebola and Marburg, which are considered bioterrorist threats, lead to death 30 percent to 90 percent of the time that they are contracted, and there are currently no vaccines or therapeutics to treat infected humans.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The global economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on AIDS research funding and add to the problems plaguing the search for a vaccine against the virus, scientists warned Tuesday.
Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it was impossible to predict whether scientists would ever be able to develop an effective vaccine, as they have for other killers such as smallpox and measles.
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