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But doxycycline is equally effective, if the strain of anthrax bacteria involved is not resistant to it.

Although recommendations may be modified over the coming months, currently, when no information is available about whether the implicated strain of anthrax bacteria is especially susceptible to any particular antibiotic, ciprofloxacin or doxycycline is recommended for adults and children, although the course for children varies slightly.

G procaine, and doxycycline are approved for preventive treatment following inhalational exposure to anthrax spores.

For children, the CDC says Cipro and doxycycline can be used for the first two to three weeks of treatment to prevent inhalational anthrax, and for the first one to seven days of treatment for cutaneous anthrax.

In addition, tetracycline, minocycline, oxytetracycline, demeclocycline, and penicillin G potassium are approved by the FDA for treatment of patients who are clinically ill with anthrax infection.

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Terrorists have used anthrax bacteria to infect, to kill, and to terrorize innocent people.

And on October 15, a letter laden with deadly anthrax was opened on Capitol Hill in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

An Associated Press reporter asked me to respond to the news that a letter containing anthrax had been delivered to the Washington office of my colleague, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

Monday As I prepared to host the bioterrorism roundtable in Nashville, a Florida man already had died of inhalational anthrax, and an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had been diagnosed with skin, or cutaneous, anthrax.

To be honest, I minimized it a bit in my own mind because I recalled receiving an anthrax hoax letter three years before.

I returned to Washington that afternoon and was asked by Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to be the liaison for the Republican senators to the fledgling medical and law enforcement investigation into the anthrax exposure at the Hart building.

The ventilation system had been shut down within an hour of the incident to avoid potential spread of anthrax, and the staff was told to expect the offices to be warmer than usual.

Nasal swabs to determine how widespread exposure to the anthrax spores had been were eventually obtained from everyone in the Hart building.

When nasal swab test results confirmed the direct exposure to anthrax of twenty-eight people inside or immediately adjacent to the Daschle suite, anxiety across Capitol Hill soared.