EXPANSION SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HEALTH AFFAIRS

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Subject: EXPANSION SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HEALTH AFFAIRS                   

Unit: OTSG        

Parent Organization: HSC         

Box  ID: BX003201

Folder Title: EXPANSION OF INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR BIO VACCINE PRODUCTION                                         

Document Number:       1001

Folder Seq  #:         24




                                                  UNCLASSIFIED
                           DEPA   "E@      @HE ARMY
                         OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
                                 5109 LEESBURG PIKE
                             FALLS CHURCH. VA 22041-3258

              REPLY TO                                1 2 DEC 1990
              ATTENTION OF


        DASG-PSZ


        MEMORANDUM THRU CHIEF OF STAFF

        FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (HEALTH AFFAIRS)

        SUBJECT: Expansion of Industrial Base for Biological Vaccine
        Production.

        1. Reference ASD(HA) memorandum dated 10 November 1990, subject
        as above.

        2. The Implementation Working Group, chaired by BG Ronald R.
        Blanck, has completed all taskings in the subject memorandum.

        3.       The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
        Diseases (USAMRIID) has been directed and received initial
        funding to convert to botulinum vaccine production. Although not
        specifically tasked in the memorandum, production of botulinum
        antitoxin has been initiated at USAMRIID.





                                      FRANK F. LEDFORD,
                                      Lieutenant General
                                      The Surgeon General







               DECLASSIFIED
               ON: 12 DEC 96
               BY: SEC ARMY (DAMH) UNDER SEC 3.4 EO 12958






                                 UNCLASSIFIED

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Subject = EXPANSION SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HEALTH AFFAIRS
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