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"<p>A new plan will be unveiled by President Barack Obama during his  State of the Union Address to allow for a quicker and better response to  bioterror threats and attacks, the White House has announced.<br /><br />Obama's  announcement, which comes on the heels of a critical report of the government's  ability to prepare and respond to bioterror attacks, will call for changing  medical countermeasures plans. The new plans will call for quick, reliable and  affordable antidotes during any public health emergency.<br /><br />The Commission  on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation, which gave a  failing grade to the Obama administration for efforts to prepare and respond to  a bioattack, says that the Obama administration is not currently addressing  urgent threats such as bioterrorism.<br /><br />This is not the first critical  report by the WMD against the government's biological preparedness. in 2008,  following another critical report, the government developed a plan to prevent  the illegal spread of biological weapons.<br /><br />Following the roll out of that  plan in November, Obama signed an order that created a system to allow the  government to rapidly distribute medical countermeasures to supplement both  state and local responses following a biological attack. That system will  utilize the U.S. Postal Service to reach every American  household.<br /><br />Despite the changes by the Obama administration, members of  the WMD commission still say that not enough is being done.<br /><br />\"Each of the  last three administrations has been slow to recognize and respond to the  biothreat,\" former Sen. Bob Graham, chairman of the commission, told the  Associated Press. \"But we no longer have the luxury of a slow learning curve,  when we know al-Qaida is interested in bioweapons.\"</p>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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