I'd ask for rubber gloves to open my mail with. And a gas mask. Hell, give me the whole suit while you're at it, can't be safe otherwise. Now I'm all nervous about going down to get our mail. Hrmph. (this is not directed at anyone in particular, more of a caustic note to myself to research infection vectors)
1) supposedly, it can not be spread from person to person.
2) according to MPR, the anti-biotic most widely used to treat anthrax is Cipro (short for, if i remember correctly, ciprofloxin. i could always be wrong though.) Cipro is actually not *too* hard to come by; i did several courses of it for a kidney infection caused by an Unusual Bug almost three years ago.
I dunno about the contagious part. I know that there was a highly contagious strain of it affecting cattle back in the late 1970's. Not sure about humans.
And Cipro is wonderful for kidney infections, but we're talking about skin oriented infection. It's different if it was a gaseous form and inhaled. There are many, MANY strains of Anthrax. It's nasty stuff.
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Date: 2001-10-16 09:00 am (UTC)Re: Well...
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Date: 2001-10-16 09:53 am (UTC)Ugh
Date: 2001-10-16 09:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-10-16 10:08 am (UTC)Now I'm all nervous about going down to get our mail. Hrmph.
(this is not directed at anyone in particular, more of a caustic note to myself to research infection vectors)
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Date: 2001-10-16 10:29 am (UTC)1) supposedly, it can not be spread from person to person.
2) according to MPR, the anti-biotic most widely used to treat anthrax is Cipro (short for, if i remember correctly, ciprofloxin. i could always be wrong though.) Cipro is actually not *too* hard to come by; i did several courses of it for a kidney infection caused by an Unusual Bug almost three years ago.
these are your anthrax tidbits for the day :)
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Date: 2001-10-16 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-10-16 12:51 pm (UTC)I know that there was a highly contagious strain of it affecting cattle back in the late 1970's. Not sure about humans.
And Cipro is wonderful for kidney infections, but we're talking about skin oriented infection. It's different if it was a gaseous form and inhaled. There are many, MANY strains of Anthrax. It's nasty stuff.
I dunno, I'm really not that worried about it.