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Article: Bitter pill Richard Fletcher reports on how soaring US demand for the anthrax treatment created an unexpected crisis for the drugs companies

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October 28, 2001
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"IN CIPRO we trust." Since October 15, the words of Tom Brokaw, the anchorman of NBC Nightly News, have reverberated around America.

NBC Nightly News - one of the most popular news shows in the US - had become the news. Brokaw's assistant had tested positive for anthrax after handling a letter addressed to one of America's best- known TV presenters.

Holding a bottle of Cipro, Brokaw, who has anchored the show since 1983, assured America that Cipro will "get me through this". It was the ultimate product endorsement for Cipro - or Ciprofloxacin - an antibiotic manufactured by Bayer, the German pharmaceutical group.

Shares in Bayer - which had been rocked in August by the withdrawal of Baycol, ...

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