[email protected] wrote:

> Probably "ciprofloxacin" (Cipro), a fluoroquinlone.  Actually, the
> treatment
> for _cutaneous_ anthrax is either doxycycline (a tetracycline-like
> drug) or
> cipro for 60 days, rather than the "mere" 30 they are suggesting.
>
> In Canada, 60 days of cipro for 2 people is $1300.  60 days of doxy
> for 2
> people is under $200.
>
> This presumes you have _cutaneous_ anthrax.  Apparently, pulmonary
> anthrax
> requires IV treatment, and it's almost too late once you have
> symptoms.

Would not nebulized CS work for pulmonary anthrax?

Marshall