Re: And another one bites the dust, another one down, another one down

At 08:30 PM 10/21/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:

I saw the Sturgeon General explaining that "we now have better treatment methods."

Depends a lot on which strain it is - some varieties of anthrax are treatable by penicillin and some other common antibiotics, while others are resistent and need Cipro. Unfortunately, telling them apart takes a couple of days of culturing, during which time your patient dies if you guessed wrong, but apparently the penicillins do a much better job when they work without being anywhere near as nasty for the patient.