Anthrax Vaccine Hits Roadblock

To be completely honest, it never really got going. A company contracted for over $800 million to develop an anthrax vaccine has been told, your fired.

(WaPo) The decision, delivered in a one-page letter, ends a troubled effort by the small California firm that has come to symbolize the failures of the government's ambitious $5.6 billion Project BioShield. The termination occurred on the same day President Bush signed legislation attempting to salvage the program by reorganizing its management and pumping more money into firms doing the work.
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The cancellation means the government will continue to depend on a controversial anthrax vaccine, used by the military and made by Emergent BioSolutions of Gaithersburg, years longer than expected. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said the agency remains committed to developing a next-generation anthrax vaccine but has not decided whether to hold another competition.

Can this be anymore symbolic of this Administration and their failures in the fight against "terror"?