Dr. Julie Gerberding, acting deputy director of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, says that percentage of side effects was expected. "We have had no surprises," she said. "These adverse events are no different from what we typically see with ciprofloxacin and doxycycline."
With approximately 32,000 people taking antibiotics to prevent anthrax since October 8, 2001 and more expected, thousands of people are expected to experience Cipro's side effects including nausea, vomiting, dizziness, convulsions, rashes, itching, swelling of the face, neck or throat, breathing problems, ruptured tendons, heart rhythm irregularities and psychiatric illness.
In a related story in the October 29, 2001 Atlanta Journal, American Medical Association Chairman Timothy Flaherty cautioned against unnecessary use of antibiotics. Noting that all antibiotics have risky side effects, he said, "in the absence of an actual infection, only the risk remains."
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