E-drug: Doxycycline becomes D.C.'s anthrax drug (cont'd)
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Leo Offerhaus wrote:
Doxycycline can also be used for treatment, and standard
treatment used to be parenteral penicilline. See earlier E-drug
mailings.
Leo, the issue concerning the stockpile that I have raised on more
than one occassion concerns strains of Anthrax, designed so that
they cannot be treated with penicillin or doxycycline. If you don't
believe such strains exist, or if you don't believe they will ever be
used, then you don't need medicines for them. If you believe the
contrary, you have to explain what precautions, in terms of a
stockpile, are needed.
"many bioweapons experts thought terrorists intent on mass
murder rather than just mass panic would use an antibiotic-resistant
strain. The Russians engineered anthrax strains resistant to
penicillin, doxycycline and other antibiotics by splicing in genes
from naturally resistant strains of, say, the common intestinal
bacterium E. coli. October 17, 2001, Anxious About Anthrax,
Sharon Begley and Michael Isikoff. "
Jamie
James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:love@cptech.org
voice: 1.202.387.8030 fax 1.202.234.5176 mobile
1.202.361.3040
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