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...Brokaw has been taking the hottest antibiotic on the market, Cipro, since Monday. The “Nightly News” staff will not be allowed to return to their offices for at least a week...
...first glance it looks like the greatest marketing coup of all time: In the midst of escalating public anxiety about anthrax, one pharmaceutical company looks set to rake in huge profits from its superstar antibiotic, Cipro, which also happens to be the only FDA-approved treatment for inhalational anthrax...
...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 its production of the drug, promising the government it will deliver 200 million Cipro tablets in the next three months...
...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...