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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.

Your misinformation about BW is astounding. The former attorney general of Tennessee once told me that "one wastes his time arguing with a fool". If you don't know the linkage between anthrax and veterinary medicine or how the LD50 for the disease in humans was researched, or how Cipro was selected as the antibiotic of choice for BW anthrax ten years ago, then we are discussing the item on separate levels.

If there is a bioengineered anthrax outbreak you go right ahead and take all the Cipro you wish. It is an antibiotic that was new ten years ago and came out right before the Gulf War. You wish to attack me on philosophical levels, I wish work with medicine. You are the one that needs to be educated about the work microbiologists, veterinarians, and infectious disease specialists do. Building 540 forever for those that know what the hell I am talking about.

This is a personal attack, Jim, this guy is a mouthy coward.

Your misinformation about BW is astounding. The former attorney general of Tennessee once told me that "one wastes his time arguing with a fool". If you don't know the linkage between anthrax and veterinary medicine or how the LD50 for the disease in humans was researched, or how Cipro was selected as the antibiotic of choice for BW anthrax ten years ago, then we are discussing the item on separate levels.

If there is a bioengineered anthrax outbreak you go right ahead and take all the Cipro you wish. It is an antibiotic that was new ten years ago and came out right before the Gulf War. You wish to attack me on philosophical levels, I wish work with medicine. You are the one that needs to be educated about the work microbiologists, veterinarians, and infectious disease specialists do. Building 540 forever for those that know what the hell I am talking about.

This is a personal attack, Jim, this guy is a mouthy coward.