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...MORE THAN CIPRO Despite public perception that Cipro is the ultimate-and only-treatment for anthrax, other antibiotics work equally well against the bacteria. Bayer, Cipro's maker, is simply the only company to conduct the additional testing (on animals) required to make the claim on its label. Last week the FDA fast-tracked approval for penicillin and doxycycline as well...
...PATENT Bayer holds the patent on Cipro until 2003. Despite congressional pressure and news that Canadian health authorities have decided to break Bayer's patent, HHS decided against permitting other companies to make generic versions of Cipro. It maintained that Cipro (Bayer is tripling production) as well as other antibiotics, would be sufficient to meet any bump in demand...
...appeared less and less capable of responding to questions and concerns. "We just don't know" is a disturbingly common refrain at press conferences as officials struggle to balance announcements of sweeping safety procedures - Washington D.C. mail is being irradiated and more than 10,000 people are now taking Cipro - with pleas for calm...
...Bayer, the German drug company that manufactures Cipro, reached an agreement with Bush administration officials Wednesday that allows the government to purchase Cipro pills for 95 cents per tablet. Private citizens' price for each pill is between $4 and $5. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters the purchase will be completed before January...
Canada’s original proposal would have increased Cipro supplies, but at a heavy cost. Anthrax is not the only threat that we face, and as concerning as the current attacks may be, the U.S. would be in even greater danger if drug companies ended their anti-bioweapons research for fear that their patents would be ignored if the drugs were ever actually needed...