Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jill who wrote (6260)	10/19/2001 12:48:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>If its garden variety why did augmentin (baby put on that at first) and penicillin (CBS girl put on that before they realized it was anthrax) not do a thing? Only cipro helped both of those cutaneous cases.<< Jill - with all due respect, I wish you would take the effort to verify what you say before posting, that is, post a link or a reference. CDC is saying that all anthrax which has been tested is susceptible to all known antibiotics which ordinarily work. There is no indication of genetic engineering. If you have information which is contrary to what the CDC is saying, please post the source. Edit: NY Times also reporting that all known samples are susceptible to drugs in the penicillin family and tetracycline family. Augmentin is amoxicillin, which is in the penicillin family. nytimes.com It would be very sad if people started having anaphylactic reactions to cipro and dying - such reactions are very rare but often fatal. Give any antibiotic to enough people and it's inevitable that some will die from a reaction. Edit again: answer to the question about "weaponized" - that primarily refers to the method of preparation, that it's in a form which can be disbursed as a bioweapon. There is also the possiblity that the strain has been exposed to known antibiotics in order to produce a strain which is resistant to penicillin and tetracycline - hence the idea that Cipro, which is new and expensive, is a better drug - but there is nothing to indicate that what is being used is, in fact, resistant to penicillin and tetracycline.