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Pharma majors gear to supply anti-anthrax drug

The panic that has gripped the U.S with anthrax bacterial infections coming to light has led to an...of 20 million tablets a month of Ciprofloxacin for anthrax treatment starting December. The treatment for anthrax entails one ciprofloxacin twice a day and the...

Fright could be more harmful

The fear of biological weapons such as anthrax may be more likely to create illness than the weap...could be the result of panic caused by the news of anthrax attacks. A letter to the British Medical Journal from researchers in the UK, US and Australia predic...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

As biological weapons go, anthrax is nowhere as terrifying as several others, says Jim Matthews, an associate professor of pharmacy at Northeastern University. Smallpox would be a lot worse. The government now has about 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine on hand. Experiments are ge...

Biotechnology on the lead

...nd developments in understanding of diseases like anthrax and botulism, will help in developing tests and va...itute of Infectious Diseases. He said a release of anthrax bacteria near a city of half a million people would cause up to 93,000 deaths within a week. Part ...

Anthrax drug doxycycline could stunt fetal growth

... prescribed to people who may have been exposed to anthrax -- can stunt fetal growth when taken by pregnant w...cline, which works equally well against strains of anthrax detected in recent weeks in the United States. But doxycycline is part of a class of drugs that can ...

Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

...uci, speaking before a Senate panel. "It is unlike anthrax in that it can be transmitted from person to person and not just a danger by a direct contact". "There are other possibilities that stores (of smallpox) may exist outside of those locations," Fauci said. "So the threat of the use of smallpox as a bi...

Why running noses are a good thing

...and coughs have the ominous first signs of inhaled anthrax or ordinary colds and flu: Anthrax victims don't h...y noses. In general, the first symptoms of inhaled anthrax are the same as the flu and other wintertime viruses -- fever, ache, cough, no energy. // As a res...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...ine this year: They want to avoid both the flu and anthrax panic. "We're getting a tremendous amount of calls and a tremendous response'' to flu vaccination clinics, said Cindy Schulte of the Schenectady County Health Department in upstate New York. "People are anxious to get it, and I think it's a year of g...

Drugs For Anthrax May Interfere With Oral Contraceptives

...ed to treat those believed to have been exposed to anthrax spores.// Many antibiotics are known to interfere with the efficacy of oral contraceptives in preventing pregnancy. In clinical studies, antibiotics have been shown to diminish the effectiveness of birth control pills. Studies have shown that birth...

Cipro Has Cheaper Cousins to Treat Anthrax

...mantra of the media as dozens of people exposed to anthrax -- and thousands who weren't -- clamor for the pot...re dealing with. It's especially effective against anthrax because it may take days for scientists to discover what kind of strain is involved in an attack. ...

Panacea Biotech To Market Anthrax Vaccine

...The vaccine develops immunity in the human body to anthrax bacillus. According to marketing director Rajesh, ...ct profile of this (JNU) vaccine is negligible. As anthrax has become a national emergency, the government's policy of fast-track registration will come into e...

Anthrax vaccine produced

...entists have produced a more effective vaccine for anthrax and they claim that it could be less mephitic and .... Dr Bhatnagar was motivated to find a vaccine for anthrax following a major epidemic among animals in West Bengal seven years ago....

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

...an identify the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) of anthrax in less than five minutes. //Sandia's Laboratory D...th already categorized elution peaks indicative of anthrax or other diseases. ...

Effective And Economical Agent For Anthrax

As anthrax and other biological weapons continue to be worris...nt treatments such as chlorine dioxide for killing anthrax and other bacterial spores. Methyl bromide gas was chosen for laboratory experiments because of its...

SARS necessitates medical masks

...le the world trade center tragedy and during the anthrax danger this mask was used. SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome, the new viral disease N95 is the safest mask to use to protect against infection.. Hoarding of masks due to fear of shortage during this SARS crisis is being reported. In some...

Anthrax hammers immune system

The anthrax bug swiftly disarms the sentinels of the body's im...tages of infection could counteract the toxin that anthrax produces in its initial attack. Antibiotics, like Cipro, could be used in concert to kill the bacter...

Identifying Predictors Of Anthrax

...ponse to identify and treat people with inhalation anthrax is needed to minimize the effects of a terrorist attack , however distinguishing // someone who has anthrax from someone who just has the flu, pneumonia or another respiratory-related illness is the question ...

New Inhalation Anthrax Vaccine

A new anthrax vaccine may offer a faster and easier way to prote...le injections. The new formulation is based on an anthrax recombinant protective antigen (rPA), a genetically engineered protein. Researchers say the powdered...

A New Product Offering protection against anthrax

... he says that his product can give protection from anthrax . The Bio-Germ Protection kits contain skin lotion...appears to be a breakthrough and the answer to the anthrax problem. Initial claims on the effectiveness of the product were based on the research of Dr. John...

Anthrax Scare In Tamil Nadu State of India

...ought and sold. Following a ban of cattle due to anthrax scare in neighboring Kerala cattle traders in Tami...e collapse of the market There are also reports of anthrax in Tamil Nadu's Theni district after which the neighboring state placed a ban on cattle entry. Said...

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