Bioterrorism

Bayer Triples Production Of Cipro Amid Anthrax Fear

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 11th, 2001

After anthrax was found at NBC, Tom Brokaw held up a prescription bottle during a newscast and declared: "In Cipro we trust." On Capitol Hill, politicians lined up for the small white pills after a scare there. The word on everyone's lips: Cipro.

Few people had even heard of Cipro before September 11. Now, Bayer Corp. is more than tripling its production of the drug, one of three antibiotics approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to fight anthrax.

Even with production running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) said he is worried about a shortage. Schumer asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

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