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There are several antibiotics you can use to combat anthrax--but only one gets all the ink: Cipro. We profile Bayer's suddenly hot drug and look at why it has become the anthrax fighter of choice. time.com/cipro...
...resources and overseen the testing of thousands and the treatment of all who have needed it. The small scale has also let Thompson maintain that we have enough antibiotics to handle the crisis, thereby avoiding the politically painful move of breaking Bayer's patent on the anthrax treatment Cipro...
...Cost of 60 capsules of 500 milligrams of Cipro, one of the antibiotics prescribed to combat anthrax...
Just two months ago, shares in the German chemical giant Bayer fell sharply after the company withdrew a cholesterol-lowering drug from the market in the wake of 52 related deaths. Now those shares have partly bounced back because of another tragedy: Bayer?s antibiotic Cipro is the drug of choice for treating anthrax, the deadly illness that has infected one person in Kenya, several in the U.S. - and terrorized millions around the world...
Talk about a silver lining. As worried Americans rushed out to buy Cipro - 14,800 prescriptions were filled in New York City in just one week at the end of September - the U.S. government announced it would stockpile enough antibiotics to treat 12 million people for 60 days, a huge amount. In response, Bayer said last week that it was tripling production of Cipro in the U.S. and increasing the supply of the active ingredient by 25% worldwide to make 200 million doses available in the next three months. Bayer also said it was talking to rival firms...