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To: Ilaine who wrote (700)	12/2/2001 5:32:22 PM
From: Snowshoe	of 827

Did you know we have Cipro in our chicken?... Risky Chickens villagevoice.com by Sharon Lerner Because the vast majority of the roughly 30,000 people who took Cipro in the anthrax scare were treating fear rather than exposure, the effectiveness of the bestselling drug was undermined even as its sales were skyrocketing. The more people who don't have bacterial infections take antibiotics, the less effective the drugs are when treating real problems, including TB, pneumonia, and bad colds. Strangely enough, being partner to human overuse is not the only way Cipro-maker Bayer is at once reaping benefits from antibiotics and eroding their power. Bayer's drug Baytril—a super-antibiotic virtually identical to Cipro that is fed to more than 128 million chickens each year—is so clearly responsible for hundreds of Cipro-resistant infections in humans that the Food and Drug Administration has begun the process of withdrawing its approval. P.S. Thanks for the Village Voice link. I'll add it to my list of sources.

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