Long Shot: Vaccines for National Defense

by Kendall Hoyt

Book Overview

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States contended with a state-run biological warfare program, bioterrorism, and a pandemic. Together, these threats spurred large-scale government demand for new vaccines, but few have materialized. A new anthrax vaccine has been a priority since the first Gulf War, but twenty years and a billion dollars later, the United States still does not have one. This failure is startling.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674061586
• ISBN13: 9780674061583
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.7"