Antibiotics cure anthrax in animal models Date: April 20, 2011 Source: American Society for Microbiology Summary: In the absence of early antibiotic treatment, respiratory anthrax is fatal.

A new analysis of the US anthrax attacks in 2001 suggests that the lives of nine people were saved by the unprecedented mass prescription of antibiotics to 5000 of the workers exposed.

Poll: Hypothetical anthrax attack and antibiotics Date: February 19, 2010 Source: Harvard School of Public Health Summary: In a national poll, researchers have found that, in response to a ...

The US government has announced a huge increase in spending on anti-anthrax antibiotics, with plans to multiply stocks by six times so that 12 million people could be treated for two months.

Anthrax and other germs will develop resistance to one of the few antibiotics left that consistently works. Dr. Stuart Levy, from Tufts University School of Medicine, heads up the Alliance for the ...

Public health officials in high-risk areas should consider stockpile anthrax antibiotics in local locations to make it easier to dispense quickly to an area of need, rather than continuing to use ...

Combining an anthrax vaccine with a short course of antibiotics completely protected monkeys who inhaled spores of the often-deadly bacteria, offering perhaps a more realistic way to protect ...

However, a significant minority of those likely to pick up antibiotics (39%) will hold on to them rather than take them right away, which public health experts believe may put them at greater risk ...

As part of preparations for a possible large-scale anthrax attack, public health officials on the state and local levels should determine where and how anthrax-preventing antibiotics should be ...

Antibiotics have been flying off pharmacy shelves because of the anthrax scares. But improper use of these potent drugs can pose serious health risks. CBS health contributor Dr. Jordan Metzl ...