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To: Ilaine who wrote (700)	12/2/2001 10:54:47 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

Or CB...is it possible that.... . .some in our government really know that it (anthrax and worse) has Iraq roots, and that we aren't ready to deal with that as yet, because of the Afghan situation and the need to resolve that first....? And now with the situation in Isreal really heating up....now what? >>>>>>>>snip>>>>>>>My guess is that the technology is something we developed right here in the good old USA, because if it wasn't, they'd be pointing the finger right now, and they are curiously silent, aren't they? And the larger point raised in the Village Voice article is one I happen to agree with. What the hell were we doing, developing this technology, or something like it? Were we really planning on using it? And if so, on whom, and why? <<<<<<<<<<<snip<<<<<<<<

To: Ilaine who wrote (700)	12/2/2001 5:32:22 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to 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.