White House Staff on Cypro 9-11-01

On the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was "a precaution," according to one person directly involved.
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Anthrax has always been a primary threat, especially to the military. After the scope of the attacks on 9/11, is was quite sensible to safeguard against against Anthrax.


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parky76 said:
Why hasnt the White House told us why? If there was a threat made to the White House, why keep it a secret?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011023/aponline201158_000.htm
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It's simply explained in the article!

On the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was "a precaution," according to one person directly involved.
At that time, nobody could guess the dimensions of the terrorists' plot.
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That is...possible. But Cypro is a very sensitive drug. Once you have taken it a few times it looses its ability to fight off infection in the body. So you should never take it unless you really really need it. I took it after food poisoning and it may be that it will no longer work in my body.

- You guys have to admit that it is an amazing coincidence that a month later, anthrax was mailed to the White House, mass media, and Congress. The conspiracy theorist in me says that maybe they had already recieved some or recieved a threat.
 
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parky76 said:
That is...possible. But Cypro is a very sensitive drug. Once you have taken it a few times it looses its ability to fight off infection in the body. So you should never take it unless you really really need it. I took it after food poisoning and it may be that it will no longer work in my body.
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And the September 11th attacks were pretty serious, weren't they?
 
parky76 said:
That is...possible. But Cypro is a very sensitive drug. Once you have taken it a few times it looses its ability to fight off infection in the body. So you should never take it unless you really really need it. I took it after food poisoning and it may be that it will no longer work in my body.

- You guys have to admit that it is an amazing coincidence that a month later, anthrax was mailed to the White House, mass media, and Congress. The conspiracy theorist in me says that maybe they had already recieved some or recieved a threat.
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IIRC none was mailed to the White House, or if it was, none actually made it there, and it was a week later, not a month. This is one of those things that actually points away from the supposed plotters in the administration. If Cheney's staff knew they were in no danger (since none was mailed to them), why would they risk taking Cipro (correct spelling)? This is like that one about why did Bush stay in the school. Nobody ever mentions that Cheney was evacuated out of the White House needlessly.

And the White House staff was not on Cipro, Cheney's staff was, apparently. This may have been a case where they deliberately took the precaution on one staff and not the other on the idea that splitting up prevents one attack from getting both.
 
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I remember on 9/11 in my firehouse listening to radio traffic from the scene
reporting possible biologic agents in the area. In our FD everyone was given
release form for us and family members to fill in for antibiotic treatment
in case exposed to biological agents.
 
parky76 said:
That is...possible. But Cypro is a very sensitive drug. Once you have taken it a few times it looses its ability to fight off infection in the body. So you should never take it unless you really really need it. I took it after food poisoning and it may be that it will no longer work in my body.
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Que? That's not how I understand it works. My understanding is that the bacteria can become resistant to Cipro (much as they can to other antibacterials). If one is being prescribed Cipro repeatedly (highly unusual), it is often for the same bacteria and the odds go up that said bacteria can become resistant. Now, there can be problems if bacteria that one naturally carries around becomes resistant to antibiotics and start causing problems, but that's usually a tertiary consideration when treating a primary infection.

So, let's say you're dosed with ciprofloxacin (the generic name of Cipro) prophylactically for potential [pulmonary] anthrax exposure. If no bacteria are present, then the drug is eliminated from the body in the usual fashion (though side effects can occur, as with virtually every med).

Of course, because ciprofloxacin isn't (barring cultures demonstrating resistance to other meds) the first antibiotic of choice for most infections, it's all mostly moot anyway. :)

You guys have to admit that it is an amazing coincidence that a month later, anthrax was mailed to the White House, mass media, and Congress. The conspiracy theorist in me says that maybe they had already recieved some or recieved a threat.
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If they had received such a threat and deemed it serious, that would certainly show that concern over terrorist bioweapons (which, depending on the mechanism of delivery, can be called "weapons of mass destruction") was justified. It would actually be quite a shot against the bulk of CTers who point to the "G" as being behind the events of 9/11...

In any case, my suspicion would be that it was a situation where the Secret Service was taking all threats more seriously, even the ones that at other times would be dismissed/back-burnered. If that was the case, then publicizing such threats would be a terrible idea, likely to cause panic for nothing. The Secret Service has to be paranoid, but there's no reason to make the general populace just as paranoid (which I think was borne out by the stupid "threat level colors" that were publicized for so long, initially causing people to worry too much and then eventually being ignored when nothing happened).
 
Babbylonian said:
Que? That's not how I understand it works. My understanding is that the bacteria can become resistant to Cipro (much as they can to other antibacterials). If one is being prescribed Cipro repeatedly (highly unusual), it is often for the same bacteria and the odds go up that said bacteria can become resistant. Now, there can be problems if bacteria that one naturally carries around becomes resistant to antibiotics and start causing problems, but that's usually a tertiary consideration when treating a primary infection.

So, let's say you're dosed with ciprofloxacin (the generic name of Cipro) prophylactically for potential [pulmonary] anthrax exposure. If no bacteria are present, then the drug is eliminated from the body in the usual fashion (though side effects can occur, as with virtually every med).

Of course, because ciprofloxacin isn't (barring cultures demonstrating resistance to other meds) the first antibiotic of choice for most infections, it's all mostly moot anyway. :)
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Shhh....I want to see Parky's source that Cipro looses effectiveness. Let him extricate himself but from a professional standpoint, you are correct.
 
Brainache said:
I think it proves that the anthrax was airborn North Of The Cipro!
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Witnesses? Because over 90 other witnesses saw the Anthrax penetrate the White House, and it's almost on video too.

Maybe it was just chicken pox, but "they" were just trying to get everyone to claim it was anthrax.

A thought: Was Jeff Gannon doing any of his overnight White House sleepovers during this time?

Whaddya know - a grand in posts!
 
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Congrats on 1K posts, ConspiRaider. If you feel like pontificating, go ahead. You're allowed one free pontification on the occasion of your 1,000th post.

As I recall, in the days after 9/11 they were passing around Cipro like it was cocktail peanuts. There was a general fear of anthrax attacks. In fact, one of the actual anthrax letters was mailed from the post office that served the office I worked in at the time. All of us in the office took Cipro as a precaution, and one of my co-workers refused to handle the mail for weeks after. I finally had to take a piece of mail and rub it on my body while shouting "DO YOUR WORST, OSAMA!" to get her to handle the mail again.
 
jhunter1163 said:
Congrats on 1K posts, ConspiRaider. If you feel like pontificating, go ahead. You're allowed one free pontification on the occasion of your 1,000th post.
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You mean I get a free trip to Rome and a private audience with the Holy See, the Pontiff himself? With the big hat and everything? I know I hafta kiss his ring, is that baby on his left hand or right hand? Can I make jokes to him about his scepter?

Man if I'd a known this I'd a gotten to a thousand posts a heckuva lot sooner! Gonna get to see Benny!!! Yippeeee!!!!11111one!!!!eleventy!!!111
 
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