This fall marks the 15th anniversary of the U.S. anthrax letter attacks that sickened dozens of people and killed five. At the time, there was no effective treatment for a late stage infection. The attacks accelerated work already underway at the University of Texas at Austin. Brent Iverson, George Georgiou and Jennifer Maynard borrowed a page from Mother Nature's playbook to develop the world's first treatment for late stage inhalation anthrax.
Image: U.S. soldier wears protective clothing and mask during chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense training. Credit: New York Air National Guard/Staff Sergeant Christopher S. Muncy, via a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.
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