GSK, BARDA antibiotic pact: 1st biothreat 'portfolio' response

With the media run-up to President Barack Obama's 23 May counterterrorism speech focused on the use of drones – with the administration acknowledging in a 22 May congressional letter that four US citizens identified as terrorists had been killed in such US military strikes in Yemen and Pakistan – and whether the US will ever close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, the nation's preparedness against a biological attack may not get equal attention in his policy address at National Defense University in Washington.

But perhaps it should, given the Obama administration scored an "F" on the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center's 2011 Bio-Response...