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#6 The Los Angeles Times noted that the "non-military biodefense research budget" increased from $60 million in 2001 to $317 million in 2002, and the Bush administration was now requesting $2 billion for 2003, which exceeded the combined research budgets for "breast and lung cancer, stroke and tuberculosis." The money would fund new high-security labs at universities and government agencies for work on "vaccines and treatments for biowarfare agents," but some experts questioned the security concerns of experimenting on these types of exotic pathogens. https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1636129683367669760 @KanekoaTheGreat