Health & Medicine - Monday, September 14, 2009 11:37 - 0 Comments

Race to stop new smallpox threat

Chad Roy at the Tulane National Primate Research Center is participating in a three-center study of an antiviral drug for the treatment of smallpox, which has re-emerged as a possible bioterrorism weapon. (Credit: Robin Rodriguez)

TULANE (US)—A nationwide effort is under way to develop an inhaled version of an antiviral drug to treat smallpox, a disease that was eradicated worldwide in the 1970s but one that has re-emerged as a possible bioterrorism weapon.

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