Word: cipro
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...would unravel. He had already cleared a huge roadblock earlier on when he agreed to allow poor countries to waive the usual patent rules for life-saving medicines, facing down the powerful U.S. pharmaceutical industry. His initial pro-drug-company position was undercut when the U.S. considered breaking the Cipro patent during the recent anthrax scare...
...from the unwashed, rhinovirus-afflicted masses, allowing us to join instead the exalted ranks of “The Targets”: the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), various media outlets, Washington, New York. Flu-like symptoms and a 60-day regimen of Cipro have come to separate the sheep from the goats, the cognoscenti from the provincials. We want anthrax because it would mean that someone, somewhere, thinks we are important enough to kill. The American preoccupation with fame isn’t dead; it’s just dormant. In peacetime, a book...
Gilmore, a former paratrooper who has fed his jail inmates surplus army rations, is a man of action. So on the afternoon of Oct. 19, he and the hospital sent a Hamilton patrol car to pick up 18,000 Cipro pills from a supplier in south Jersey. It arrived back in Hamilton just as a news conference was being held to announce another case of anthrax. Knowing that the local hospital now had a stash on hand, Gilmore stepped to the microphone and told workers they could get free treatment in his township. Some 1,500 postal workers have since...
...CIPRO and other antibiotics kill bacteria by interfering with an enzyme that the bugs need to create their...
...21st century, when everybody finds himself caught on the frontlines. The Commander in Chief alternated between private briefings on the progress in Kandahar and public statements that "I don't have anthrax." Vice President Dick Cheney was coordinating the battle and learning that his key staff members were on Cipro. When two postal workers died, Bush privately told people that he considered them casualties of war, just like the Rangers who had perished in Pakistan a few days before. Both wars became simultaneously more difficult and more disturbing, as the generals acknowledged that the Taliban was a tougher enemy than...