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. The ...

To prepare for a bioterrorist anthrax attack, public health officials in high-risk areas should consider stockpiling anthrax antibiotics in local locations.

Antibiotic resistance US health authorities are stressing that people should only take antibiotics if they have been exposed to the anthrax bacterium. Cipro (ciprofloxacin) is effective against a ...

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 ...

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 poll found that a majority of adults (89%) said they would likely follow public health officials' initial recommendations to go get antibiotics from a dispensing site after an anthrax attack.

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. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that the 60-day dose of antibiotics recommended by doctors to prevent anthrax may not be long enough in some cases ...