Cipro, or ciprofloxacin, is not the only antibiotic that can treat anthrax.

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Now, by going to the Web site run by United Devices, anyone can help researchers fight not only smallpox, but also anthrax and cancer.

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So again, at this point, still only the three confirmed cases of anthrax exposure here in Boca Raton.

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In the past week, the Canadian government threatened to buy generic forms of Cipro from other drug companies, but it, too, reached an agreement to rely on Bayer to supply the anti-anthrax drug Cipro and only use generic drugs if the company can't deliver.

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So far, the major television news networks in New York - NBC, ABC and CBS - have all had one confirmed case of anthrax each, while the first report and only death was in the Florida offices of newspaper publishers American Media.

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If the anthrax bacteria infect the lungs, antibiotics may work only if given shortly before symptoms appear.

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The Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, at Porton Down in Salisbury, is the only place in the world that can manufacture a licensed vaccine against anthrax.

BBC: Anthrax antidote hope

John Steele, vice president of the Postal Service's Northeast Area Operations, said that the machines would most likely have been contaminated by an anthrax letter bound for an address in the town of Seymour, only a few miles from where Lundgren lived.

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