Uses

Cipro® was approved in 1987 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a strong antibiotic to be used in a wide variety of cases. Since then it has been prescribed to over 300 million patients worldwide. Cipro® has been approved for the treatment of 14 types of infection including respiratory and urinary tract infections, skin, and other gastro-intestinal infections. Cipro® is the most widely used fluoroquinolone antibiotic in the world, which testifies to its wide range of uses.

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It has been in use in the United States for 14 years and has a very high efficiancy. It is also the first antibiotic to be approved specifically for an indication associated with the intentional use of a lethal biological weapon. Cipro is available in three different forms: Tablets, Oral Suspension (strawberry-flavored liquid to be taken by mouth), and I.V. (which a doctor or nurse injects directly into the bloodstream).

More Information:

Urinary Tract Infections	http://www.crha-health.ab.ca/hlthconn/items/kidney2.htm
Prostatitis	http://www.prostatitis.org/
Gonorrhea	http://www.4woman.gov/faq/stdgonor.htm?src=ng
Respiratory Tract Infections	http://www.rtialert.com/home.asp
Infectious Diarrhea	http://www.quickcare.org/gast/diarrhea.html
Anthrax	http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm

Price:

CNN.com - had the wholesale price of Cipro® listed as $1.77 per capsule.

Yahoo – when using this search engine there was an abundance of sites selling the potent drug without the need of a prescription for $99.00 for 20 capsules. (Also listed on the page where the drug was being sold was a warning of the pill not to be taken by persons under 18 due to health risks and an assurance of “discreet packaging”.)

Eckerd’s Pharmacy (in Cary) – quoted a price of $113.39 for 20 capsules of 500mg

· In the Physician’s Desk Reference the dosage of Cipro® is recommended to be taken twice a day every 12 hours, meaning it would cost over $100 for 10 days of the drug.

It should also be noted that while individual cost of Cipro is very high, the Bayer Company has given the government a discount price of 95 cents per pill.

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