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...Cipro is the ultimate-and only-treatment for anthrax, other antibiotics work equally well against the bacteria. Bayer, Cipro's maker, is simply the only company to conduct the additional testing (on animals) required to make the claim on its label. Last week the FDA fast-tracked approval for penicillin and doxycycline as well...
...Investigators are examining the two letters sent to NBC's Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. The letters, penned in identical, block-style lettering, included threats to the U.S. and to Israel. The Brokaw letter urged the recipient to take penicillin "now" while the Daschle letter had a far more aggressive and angry tone...
...varying degrees. Contact and ingested forms respond best to treatment, with any of the antibiotics currently on the market--penicillin, tetracycline, doxycycline and fluoroquinolones such as Levaquin and Cipro. Cipro gets the most press because it is the only one specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat anthrax. But unless you are exposed to one of the strains genetically engineered to be resistant to other antibiotics, you don't need Cipro. Inhalation cases can be treated with the same antibiotics if treatment is begun soon after infection, but as we saw in Florida, patients often...
...your hands, wash them - just like your mother always told you to do - and most likely you've killed the anthrax. If you're a bit unlucky and a skin infection actually takes hold, you take some cheap, curative antibiotics. If you go with Penicillin instead of Cipro, you can probably cure yourself of anthrax for under $10. (If you have a good insurance plan, you might get away with only...
...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...