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...Exactly what those profits will be remains a matter of speculation. Bayer?s stock price has not shown any dramatic response to the anthrax scares. The company is quick to dispel such speculation: Wednesday morning, Bayer?s French division angrily denied accusations that the company is profiteering from the anthrax scare. "We are scandalized and outraged by this accusation," a spokesperson said. She went on to explain that while prices on the drugs have gone up somewhat in the past several weeks, that increase was only to cover the costs of newly frenetic manufacturing and shipping. (Bayer has tripled...
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...This is not a one-horse field; there are other antibiotics perfectly capable of treating anthrax, including various members of the penicillin and tetracycline classes. So how did Cipro, identified in the press as the weapon of choice in the war against anthrax, claim such a visible, and valuable, spot in the public consciousness...
...Cipro, or ciprofloxacin HCl, is an oral antibiotic that was, until recently, used primarily to combat urinary tract infections. In the summer of 2000, after hearing testimony on bioterrorist threats, rattled lawmakers launched an investigation into U.S. preparedness. They found two drugs were considered feasible treatments for anthrax: Penicillin and doxycycline. And they found problems with both. Scientists fear that introducing massive amounts of penicillin into the general population could hasten the creation of mutant penicillin-resistant strains of bacteria. Likewise, there was some evidence that terrorists had engineered strains of the anthrax bacteria resistant to both penicillin and doxycylcines...