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...maintains a stock of Cipro and other antibiotics used in the treatment of anthrax and other infections, and cooperates with area hospital pharmacies to access drugs and vaccines. But unless directed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, UHS will not dispense the medications preventively...
Nationwide precautions have similarly been encouraging. The significant increase in the production of the drug Cipro, which has been found to impede the effect of even the more dangerous forms of anthrax, should help to relieve Americans across the nation. Further increases, as well as stockpiling of other antibiotics and vaccines, may be required. At the same time, of course, the nation cannot take preparations for biological warfare to extremes. America depends on its mail system for everything from daily business transactions to casual correspondence between friends; abandoning the mails, hoarding supplies of antibiotics or reverting to hysteria...
...Bayer has patent rights over Cipro for at least another year - although those rights may now be challenged. Tuesday, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York announced there is a section of federal law allowing the government to buy generic versions of patented drugs. If his proposal is approved, Schumer says, the public would not have to worry about buying Cipro, because the government would have a supply large enough to go around...
...Bayer was notified, and members of Congress urged the Food and Drug Administration to speed up the often labored process of drug approval. In August 2000, Cipro, which had demonstrated an anti-anthrax efficacy in tests on monkeys, was rushed through the approval process and dubbed the unequivocal drug of choice in the anthrax battle. It is currently the only drug used to treat inhalational (pulmonary) anthrax...
...recent stockpiling of the drug, eagerly point out that exposure to anthrax is still contained to an infinitesimal portion of the population. They also warn there are dangers to self-medication, ranging from common side effects like nausea to the worst-case scenario: Overuse of the drug could produce Cipro-resistant bacteria...