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Founded in 1901, the Butantan Institute, an agency of the Sao Paulo regional government, has been a center for producing vaccines and an important unit for biomedical research. The laboratory was working on a number of projects based on different types of reptile venom, which were being tested as treatments for such ailments as leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. Recently the Butantan has also been the public agency charged with developing the vaccine against the AH1N1 swine flu virus in Brazil from a sample provided by France's Sanofi Pasteur laboratory. Rosa Guedes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Faculty Coordinator http://faculty.philau.edu/guedesr/ Green grant, International Journal Of Ecology & Development (Associate Editor) Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you.
