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Antibiotic Discovery Stagnates A Public Health Crisis Brews, which outlined possible incentives to spur development of new antibiotics. IDSA believes that many of these incentives could also make the vaccine market more attractive to pharmaceutical companies, and that Bioshield II offers a means for putting policy into action.

"Vaccines and antibiotics have been among our chief tools for preventing and treating infectious diseases," said Dr. Stamm. "How can we as infectious disease physicians tell our patients that our tool box is empty? Market forces alone are not going to solve this problem. We need innovative federal policy to protect public health."

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Contact: Diana Olson
dolson@idsociety.org
703-299-0201
Infectious Diseases Society of America
21-Oct-2004

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