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To: Joe NYC who wrote (145360)	10/15/2001 7:35:34 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"I doubt that any contact with Anthrax means certain death." Not so... If you contract Anthrax from inhalation you exhibit flu like symptoms for a couple days, phase 1. Then you get better, think everything is fine. Then phase 2 kicks in. Massive multiplying of the bacteria, into the lymph nodes along with a release of toxin. You can be dead in a matter of hours and about 90% of the time. You only real hope is to catch it in phase 1. By the time phase 2 kicks in your finished. If you contract it through the skin at least you get a lesion to look at...your chances are much better. RE:"I think that a self diagnosis, and taking antibiotics without really strong confirmation that they are needed would cause more harm than good." That's the argument. Nothing new there. RE:"Antibiotics are bad for you. They cause damage to a human body. The only reason to take them is you are treating something worse than the antibiotics themselves." Antibiotics work by not allowing the cell wall to form thus stoping multiplication. The bad thing is that Antibiotics kill the good bacteria as well as the bad. Also the possibility of secondary infections. Also immunity to the antibiotic. None of this is as bad as dying a painful death. A lot of people are stockpiling because they know that in a large outbrak there will be shortages...and Anthrax doesn't wait around... Jim

To: Joe NYC who wrote (145360)	10/15/2001 7:43:24 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The main problem is the possibility of developing resistance, or the half treatment of an actual exposure, with a delay in full treatment. The incidence of things like other infections (Clostridium dificile for example) would be higher with rampant dosing, and the incidence of death from such diseases would be higher than the 1 case so far reported from Anthrax. So I would agree with your statement. It is the same as people driving 12 hrs to avoid flying, event though the 12 hour drive will have a higher mortality associated with it.