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To: xcr600 who wrote (10086)	10/12/2001 3:48:25 PM
From: Jibacoa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13094

"500 tabs. of Cipro" That is $2,500. Nothing to laugh at. <g> Vibramycin or its generic Doxycycline is also effective 98% of the time and much cheaper. There is no generic Ciprofloxacin available. Bernard

To: xcr600 who wrote (10086)	10/13/2001 5:49:55 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13094

You might think about smallpox. I had lunch today with a county coroner, and they are on the alert for any kind of smallpox outbreak. Evidently we here in the US stopped vaccinating for pox back in 1972, so there is a big (80%) population segment that is at severe risk if these terrs have some of this stuff, and they just might have it, ala the break-up of the old Soviet Union. This stuff is contagious, unlike anthrax, So it comes with it's own built in distribution sequence. Some backround, it is not pretty> jama.ama-assn.org An excerpt> "Recent allegations from Ken Alibek, a former deputy director of the Soviet Union's civilian bioweapons program, have heightened concern that smallpox might be used as a bioweapon. Alibek reported that beginning in 1980, the Soviet government embarked on a successful program to produce the smallpox virus in large quantities and adapt it for use in bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles; the program had an industrial capacity capable of producing many tons of smallpox virus annually. Furthermore, Alibek reports that Russia even now has a research program that seeks to produce more virulent and contagious recombinant strains. Because financial support for laboratories in Russia has sharply declined in recent years, there are increasing concerns that existing expertise and equipment might fall into non-Russian hands. The deliberate reintroduction of smallpox as an epidemic disease would be an international crime of unprecedented proportions, but it is now regarded as a possibility. An aerosol release of variola virus would disseminate widely, given the considerable stability of the orthopoxviruses in aerosol form9 and the likelihood that the infectious dose is very small. Moreover, during the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, when smallpox was imported during the December to April period of high transmission, as many as 10 to 20 second-generation cases were often infected from a single case. Widespread concern and, sometimes, panic occurred, even with outbreaks of fewer than 100 cases, resulting in extensive emergency control measures." _______________________________________________________ And who used it first??? "Smallpox probably was first used as a biological weapon during the French and Indian Wars (1754-1767) by British forces in North America. Soldiers distributed blankets that had been used by smallpox patients with the intent of initiating outbreaks among American Indians. Epidemics occurred, killing more than 50% of many affected tribes. With Edward Jenner's demonstration in 1796 that an infection caused by cowpox protected against smallpox and the rapid diffusion worldwide of the practice of cowpox inoculation (ie, vaccination), the potential threat of smallpox as a bioweapon was greatly diminished." We have here in the US a 30 day supply of vaccine, so who makes the vaccine, and can they gear up quick?????????

To: xcr600 who wrote (10086)	10/14/2001 12:58:07 PM
From: James Strauss	Respond to of 13094

ot- my "better half" is a nurse. She just came home with 500tablets of Cipro for our trip to Florida. Just in case she says.. I laughed at her. xcr: Anthrax is very treatable if it's the skin variety... The inhalation variety is very serious, but needs at least 10,000 spores to be inhaled... That makes it difficult to deliver quantities for mass impact... Cipro seems to be the antibiotic of choice, although many other antibiotics are also effective... Good luck in the sunshine state... Jim