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Posted: 10/17/2001 11:16:31 AM EDT
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:22:14 AM EDT
[#1]
Probably because one of the side effects is Captain Trips...
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:23:41 AM EDT
[#2]
because they weren't effective then and they aren't effective now. they're running out of Cipro and they're desperate. when we run out of pennicillin, you'll see how quick Vic's Formula 44D gets approved to treat the 'thrax!
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:25:42 AM EDT
[#3]
Would like to see your source but
Penicillin
Tetracycline
Doxycycline
Ciprofloxin
Levaquin
All treat it.
It is an easy bug to treat with many antibiotics.
Not near as scary as smallpox!
cpermd
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:30:36 AM EDT
[#4]
...or sarin...

hey, did anyone ask themselves prior to the florida confirmations why the media was answering questions about the thrax that nobody was asking?

at least we know now that if we see on the 6 o'clock news, all this info on sarin, that its only a few short weeks before we learn of a weeks-old sarin attack! [whacko]
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:38:50 AM EDT
[#5]
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:39:06 AM EDT
[#6]
just out of couriosity, is Amoxicilin the same as penicilin?
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:45:38 AM EDT
[#7]
Amoxacillin will treat anthrax
cpermd
Link Posted: 10/17/2001 11:48:29 AM EDT
[#8]
A Doc on TV just said that they were using Cipro at first because it is efffective against the greatest number of different strains of anthrax. What the FDA just said is that the generics have now been proven to be effective against these strains that are showing up. Penicillin has always been known to work against some strains of anthrax, but not others.
Link Posted: 10/18/2001 1:22:29 AM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
just out of couriosity, is Amoxicilin the same as penicilin?
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They are not the same drug, but they are in the same family of antibiotics, as is ampicillin.

To some extent, if the names sound similar, the antibiotics are often (but not always) related.

Ciprofloxacin and lomefloxacin, tetracycline and doxycycline, and so on and so forth. . . .
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