21.   Local postal workers have demanded more employees be tested and given prescriptions for Cipro, the most popular antibiotic used to treat anthrax.

22.   More than a quarter say public health officials are wrong in advising people not to ask their own doctors for Cipro, an antibiotic used in treating anthrax.

23.   Moreover, they said any suggestion that use of Baytril would make Cipro ineffective in treating anthrax is bogus.

24.   New Yorkers are going to extremes, stocking up on everything from Cipro, an antibiotic used to treat anthrax, to plastic body suits.

25.   Originally, they were meant to prevent and treat cutaneous anthrax.

26.   Only scant scientific evidence supports using the vaccine to treat anthrax after exposure.

27.   Other drugs can treat anthrax, including garden-variety penicillins and tetracyclines.

28.   Relatively little is known about treating inhalational anthrax.

29.   Some parents debated whether to allow their children to go trick-or-treating on Halloween, while others discussed the side effects of various antibiotics used to treat anthrax.

30.   Still, citizens are stocking up on everything from gas masks to Cipro, an antibiotic that can treat anthrax.