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Frist urges US effort against bioterrorism

Nation not ready to fight epidemics, he says at Harvard

By Raja Mishra
Globe Staff / June 2, 2005

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Senate majority leader Bill Frist yesterday called for a large-scale national effort to combat emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism, telling an assembly of students and faculty at Harvard Medical School that the nation was unprepared to fend off ''an approaching storm" of epidemics that could kill millions. (Full article: 611 words)

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