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I reject your post #183 along with your snide personal attack. Unless you are familiar with USAMRIID, Peters, Tigrett, and Patrick, you haven't a clue with what you are talking about. My post had to do with cows in case you cannot read. The Factor I, II, and III componets of anthrax are well known by those of us who study the disease. Your statements of why Cipro was chosen exposes your ignorance of why Cipro was chosen as the antibiotic of choice for anthrax and basic medicine, basic pharmacology, and microbiology. Your last statement is ludicrous and sums up the total of your breadth and experience.

I spread no false notions and my statement to anyone of minimal knowledge of the disease is correct. I also noticed that your bio is nonexistant which correlates well with your knowledge of the disease.

Cows? COWS???

Dr. Doug, in case you haven't noticed, this is a thread about the threat of anthrax to humans. We are not concerned about cows. I know that you are, and I do not fault you for that. I do not make snide remarks about your being a "cow doctor," because that is an honorable and necessary profession. But if you would take the time to just read the anthrax threads on FreeRepublic as it relates to humans, you would increase your knowledge on the subject tenfold.

There is just no excuse for advising patients, the public, or the medical profession to wait until symptoms appear and then to prescribe penicillin as opposed to Cipro.

Why don't you tell us why ALL of the experts who are saying that Cipro (or perhaps some other antibiotics, not penicillin) before the onset of symptoms is the only possible cure for inhalation anthrax IN HUMANS are wrong, and you, Dr. Doug the veterinarian, are correct in saying wait till you get symptoms and then take penicillin. Is your position based on saving money or what?

The cows need you, I am sure. Humans and informed people on this website do not. The truly sad thing is that, in times like these, we may very well need the expertise of our veterinarians to assist humans in dire straits. I had hoped that vets would rise to the occasion and increase their fund of knowledge about anthrax AS IT RELATES TO HUMANS so that this could be done, but it looks likes in your case at least, we cannot count on that.