[Ip-health] cipro on patent?

[George M. Carter]

Quick answer? Cipro I think is still on patent--and costs a LOT more.

It may be that it is a broad-spectrum antibiotic and the efficacy may be 
better than the tetracycline. I've got doxycycline that I was going to use 
as malaria prophylaxis therapy for a trip to India--which unfortunately was 
to have left on 9/11. As I understand it, that is the preferred antibiotic 
of the two.

George M. Carter

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Ed Richards wrote:
At 08:53 AM 10/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Anyone have any insight into why the media has focused on Cipro, instead
of tetracycline, which works as well and is cheap and available by the
ton.  (Just divert some from animal feed.)

Is it just clever marketing or lazy reporters?

Edward P. Richards
Executive Director - Center for Public Health Law
The Ruby M. Hulen/UMKC Professor of Law
University of Missouri Kansas City
(816)235-2370 Fax (816)235-5276
richardse@umkc.edu
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