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U.S. Funds Study on Bioagent Effects on Lungs
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has issued a $15 million grant to the University of New Mexico and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute to study how biological agents affect the lungs, the Scripps Howard News Service reported Saturday (see GSN, June 1). The affects of agents such as anthrax, smallpox and the plague are expected to be studied over five years. “Basically all these bugs are out there in the wild right now — most of them here in New Mexico,” said Rick Lyons, a professor at the University of New Mexico. “We get plague and tularemia (bacteria) cases every year. What we don’t know now, though, is what these things will do if they attack us in a different way. We never thought in the past they’d be aimed at our lungs, but in biological weapons they are. We just want to understand it more.” Studies will be done on rodents and lung cell cultures, and conducted at biosafety laboratories at the University of New Mexico and Lovelace (Sue Vorenberg, Scripps Howard News Service/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 11).
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