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This pressure reached critical proportions after Jason D. Altom, a fifth-year graduate student, committed suicide by swallowing a lethal dose of potassium cyanide in August...
...warnings-from Washington's vague bulletin to California's detailed advisory-left many people feeling quite the opposite: confused, afraid and in some cases downright angry. "We're drinking all the coffee we can," Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said with a large dose of black humor. "How alert...
...crisis has exposed problems in the system that could be disastrous in a bigger emergency. In that sense, the current, manageable alarm may actually serve as a sort of bureaucratic vaccine, exposing the government to a low dose of what a real bioterror attack is like so that it can fortify itself against a bigger hit later. If so, Thompson's department, which seems so unsure of itself now, will have to gain its footing in a hurry. Says Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown of Ohio: "This should serve as a call to action...
Thompson promised last week that the U.S. wouldn?t violate Bayer?s patent, though lawyers say the federal government has the authority to do so. Bayer sells its drug to the government for about $1.50 a dose, about one-third of the usual wholesale price. The Bush Administration has announced plans to spend $643 million increasing the nation?s drug stockpile, not only of Cipro, whose active ingredient is ciprofloxacin, but also of two other anthrax fighters, penicillin and doxycycline. Though they are much cheaper than Cipro, they are not as effective against genetically engineered anthrax...
...real threat, until some new attack, we'll continue to see anthrax hyped and fear everywhere. Over time, the fear of dying from anthrax will dissipate. With a little knowledge we can take back our lives. We can win. It doesn't even require bravery. Just a small dose of reality...