That’s very interesting. Could the chemical agent preventative pills have had a lower intensity reaction than the chemical agent itself by mutating the DNA? I could see the possibility. It wouldn’t be the first time the cure damaged the subject to a lessor degree than the agent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyridostigmine
Pyridostigmine was the pill. The problem is fairly straightforward. It normally doesn’t cross the blood/brain barrier.
But it can do so in some people, under acute stress, like in a war. When it does, you get what we see as gulf war syndrome.
It also explains why some people side by side taking the same pills got it, when their buddy didn’t. Taken in conjunction with numerous other drugs, that was it.
Simple as that. The Cipro for anthrax wasn’t anything more than an enormous antibiotic.