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...team was called out five times in 48 hours, all for hoaxes. A woman phoned in a report that her computer keyboard was covered with a powdery substance. The FBI discovered that she had been eating cookies. The State Department was evacuated because somebody spilled some talcum powder. Cipro overtook Viagra as the drug of choice on Internet sites...
...matter so casually. The public, sensitized to the horrors of bioterrorism by weeks of government warnings and media coverage, was ready to assume the worst. Even though a mass attack is considered unlikely, doctors in South Florida and New York have been besieged with demands for ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, the only antibiotic specifically approved for treating anthrax. Police all over the U.S. have been fielding calls reporting suspicious substances; on Friday a single precinct in New York City responded to three different alerts, quarantining one building in lower Manhattan for two hours. The city's emergency rooms were besieged...
...varying degrees. Contact and ingested forms respond best to treatment, with any of the antibiotics currently on the market--penicillin, tetracycline, doxycycline and fluoroquinolones such as Levaquin and Cipro. Cipro gets the most press because it is the only one specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat anthrax. But unless you are exposed to one of the strains genetically engineered to be resistant to other antibiotics, you don't need Cipro. Inhalation cases can be treated with the same antibiotics if treatment is begun soon after infection, but as we saw in Florida, patients often...
...Anthrax spores were found in the Manhattan offices of New York Governor George Pataki. The Governor and affected staff members are taking Cipro as a precaution against infection. There was no word as to whether anyone was exposed to the bacteria...
...calm is real - in New York, thousands of nervous people are flooding 911 lines and hospitals, worried that they might have been exposed to anthrax. They most likely haven't, and public health officials are worried this will further tax an already strained health system. And overuse of Cipro and other antibiotics could help breed newer, antibiotic-resistant strains of anthrax. It didn't help matters when the governor of New York, George Pataki, announced he was popping Cipro, even though he'd never even been tested for exposure to anthrax...