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...maintains an appropriate stock of Cipro and other antibiotics used in the treatment of anthrax infection. We also cooperate with area hospital pharmacies to share drugs and vaccines, as needed,” he wrote...
...While the presence of anthrax was detected in another co-worker Wednesday, officials stress the final results of the swab tests may not be available for days; all of Stevens? co-workers were sent home with a 15-day supply of the antibiotic Cipro, the current standard in preventative measures against anthrax...
...woman, who is expected to fully recover, received and opened a suspicious letter on or around September 25th (the letter contained a powder substance, which tested negative for the disease). She reported the letter to the authorities, began getting tested for anthrax and started taking the antibiotic Cipro. She tested negative until this week, when she began exhibiting symptoms, including a lesion on her skin. FBI and CDC officials are on the scene in New York City; Mayor Giuliani says parts of Rockefeller Center will be closed off for a few days, and other NBC employees will be tested...
...Cutaneous anthrax is far less dangerous than inhaled anthrax; approximately three cases were reported in the U.S. last year, and all patients made full recoveries. Both cutaneous and inhaled anthrax are easily treated in their early stages with rounds of an antibiotic, such as Cipro. Cutaneous anthrax is only particularly dangerous in the unlikely event that it enters the body via a cut and then finds its way to local lymph nodes...
...11th utterly destroyed the buffer that separated our most horrific and surreal imaginings from the realm of possibility. Our dark storyteller was given free reign in the world of the conceivable and, predictably, gas masks, Cipro and cell phones began flying off the shelves. And, imagining even more previously unimaginable images, the American public was loath to once again trudge down the jetway onto what they perceived as suicidal cruise missiles. Even now, the airline industry reports business around 40 percent lower than this time last year...