DARPA with an annual $2.915 billion budget was just awarded another $112 million from emergency funding announced by the White House to support the response to Ebola at home and abroad. “The request includes funding for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support immediate efforts aimed at developing technologies that are relevant to the Ebola crisis, such as providing immediate temporary immunity, including through the use of antibodies from survivors of Ebola and other infectious diseases that will help provide a stop gap until an effective vaccine is available, and developing new technologies that could shorten the vaccine development timeline from years to months,” a White House statement reads. In order to help contain the disease, the US has already deployed over 1,900 troops in Liberia and Senegal. Upon their return to American soil, AP reports, the personnel will be quarantined for 21 days in one of 5 specially designated military bases – Fort Hood and Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:57:37 +0000
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