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...while mail handlers were left in the dark for days. But in fact some congressional aides shared their complaint. An aide says neither he nor any of his colleagues were told to get treatment. They learned about the dangers through CNN and phone calls from friends. And when given Cipro, they weren't asked questions about symptoms or warned about side effects. "Last week I really trusted the government's handling of this," said a Republican aide. "Now I'm pessimistic and disillusioned. It's like no one is in charge...
...conference call with workers last Wednesday, the day Manhattan employees started taking Cipro, William Burrus, incoming head of the American Postal Workers Union, tried to introduce his colleagues to their new job descriptions. "In a war, there are casualties," he told some 15,000 postal workers listening around the country. "In the past, we've viewed wars on television, and they've been sanitized and far away. But we are the battlefront...
...doctor has ever written a prescription as sweeping as the one the Centers for Disease Control penned to head off the anthrax attack: 10 to 60 days of Cipro, a powerful antibiotic in the arsenal of modern medicine, for anyone who might have come anywhere near a spore. Nearly 20,000 Americans are already taking Cipro, and the number was shooting up--by the hundreds or even thousands--every time another anthrax "hot spot" was discovered...
...every blister pack of antibiotics has its downside, and now doctors are bracing for a second wave of bad news--reports of Cipro side effects and whole new breeds of tough, Cipro-resistant germs. That is why the CDC recommended late last week that all those needing antibiotics against anthrax--for treatment and prevention--be given doxycycline, not Cipro. Doxycycline is a powerful antibiotic that tends to have fewer side effects and costs much less than brand-name Cipro...
...Cipro side effects surfaced first in Florida, where staff members at American Media have started to experience stomach pain and foggy heads. Two were hospitalized--one for a severe allergic reaction, the other for a seizure--and many had to switch quickly to other antibiotics. Even members of the CDC working on the anthrax samples have developed Cipro skin rashes...