1.   Officials insisted that others were merely sick from flu and did not widely distribute the antibiotics that might have saved lives.

2.   Saturday the Fordham University Health Center began distributing antibiotics to students who might have had close contact with Milward.

3.   Richardson saw the doubt that Sunday night, as health officials distributed antibiotics to postal workers downtown.

4.   Israel also decided Sunday to distribute antibiotics to protect against a biological attack.

5.   Israeli defense officials, meanwhile, debated whether to distribute antibiotics to residents of areas that could be the target of a biological attack.

6.   Israeli officials decided Sunday to distribute antibiotics to protect against a biological attack, and some foreign diplomats were preparing to leave the country.

7.   The hospital in Chandrigarh asked authorities in Punjab and neighboring Haryana state to take precautions like distributing antibiotics and isolating suspected cases.

8.   A spokesman for the chemical group, BASF, said it distributed antibiotics to its staff in India and asked them not to visit areas hit by the epidemic.

9.   The sorting office was fumigated by health officials, who also distributed antibiotics to the staff.