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Anthrax vs. the Cure

By AAN Staff
september 25, 2003  07:47 pm
Anthrax vs. the Cure
During the height of the anthrax scare two years ago, Cipro was widely seen as a silver bullet against the fatal illness, and Bayer Pharmaceutical vowed to keep the nation armed. Now a class action lawsuit against Bayer claims the antibiotic left many users with a variety of debilitating ailments, including severe joint pain, tendinitis and muscle ache, severe anxiety and panic attacks, insomnia and depression. Although those claims are open to dispute, Patrick Rucker reports that the decision to widely use Cipro against the anthrax attacks “now seems to have been hasty and made without a full appreciation of the consequences.”
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