Word: anthrax
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...sells its drug to the government for about $1.50 a dose, about one-third of the usual wholesale price. The Bush Administration has announced plans to spend $643 million increasing the nation?s drug stockpile, not only of Cipro, whose active ingredient is ciprofloxacin, but also of two other anthrax fighters, penicillin and doxycycline. Though they are much cheaper than Cipro, they are not as effective against genetically engineered anthrax...
Cipro was introduced in 1987 as a broad-spectrum antibiotic useful in combatting urinary tract and respiratory infections. With $1.4 billion in sales last year, Cipro is Bayer?s biggest-selling drug. As the anthrax scare spread in the U.S., Bayer?s shares bounced up about 45%. But analysts caution that the anthrax fears will produce only a short-term benefit for Bayer. "We think that the upside from Cipro is full-priced into the share price," Deutsche Bank said in an e-mail to its clients last week...
Almost two months after Sept. 11, terrorism and anthrax threats weighed heavily on some students’ minds, making the weekend more significant...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) sealed off a Winthrop House courtyard for decontamination last Friday morning after discovering a suspicious white powder on the ground. The powder was taken to the Massachusetts State Laboratory for anthrax testing...
Yuval H. Grill ’03, who lives in Winthrop’s D entryway, said he was startled to see a HAZMAT truck as he awoke for class in the morning, but added that he is not overly concerned about the anthrax threat...