Word: cipro
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...supply cut-rate antiretroviral medicines in Africa. Poor nations in the region had long said the high cost of the drugs was taking a toll in human lives. Their case was later bolstered when the U.S. and Canada, fearing terrorist anthrax attacks, pressured German giant Bayer to sell Cipro, its anti-anthrax drug, at a steep discount...
...jumped an alarming 100-fold among some Belarussian children. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now giving states the option of stocking up on potassium iodide for communities near the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. Still, the NRC emphasizes that the drug is not the next Cipro. Says NRC spokesman William Beecher: "It can protect only one part of the body against one radioactive element...
Then came Sept. 11. After the hijack terror followed bioterror - anthrax. Faced with the potential of a widespread public health emergency, U.S. officials scrambled to stockpile Cipro, Bayer AG's patented antibiotic used to treat anthrax. Suddenly the U.S. and Canada - long tough on patent protection - found themselves feeling like South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations desperate for needed medicines at low cost. When politicians mentioned overriding patents, Bayer struck discount-purchase deals. Bayer also donated 4 million tablets to the U.S. for emergency and postal workers. Other companies, too, are eager to promote their own low-cost anthrax...
...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...