It was one week after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 when envelopes containing a white powder began showing up at random locations in four states; among them, a newspaper office in Florida, the Washington D.C. office of then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, NBC News and the New York Post. The white powder turned out to be anthrax spores, engineered to be readily dispersed and inhaled – a potentially deadly bioterrorism weapon.Anthrax infections are treated with antibiotics. There are two that are most effective; ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.At that time, I was the CEO of a small pharmaceutical company that represented foreign...
