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 * "General Background: Bioterrorism & Stockpiling Antibiotics." //Tufts University//. Web. 05 Apr. 2011
 * "Both the government and individual patients can stockpile antibiotics." (paragraph 2)
 * "The government stockpiles, or stores, antibiotics to care for its citizens, and to be ready to respond to an actual bioterrorist event." (paragraph 2)
 * "Without specific instructions, patients are likely to take the drug for a common illness, cold, or cough, which is not anthrax. [or any other bacterial infection]" (paragraph 4)
 * "Thus, stockpiling ciprofloxacin could lead to widespread misuse of this important antibiotic prior to any bioterrorist event." (paragraph 4)
 * "Consumers should not use stockpiled antibiotics unless there is an official public health alert stating that we ARE having a bioterrorism event and that the organism is in fact one that can be treated with this drug." (paragraph 5)
 * "Currently, many bacteria that cause severe human illnesses are already resistant to other antibiotics; the drug of choice is often from the fluoroquinolone family, of which ciprofloxacin is a member." (paragraph 7)
 * "As you use ciprofloxacin, susceptible bacteria in your intestinal tract and on your skin are killed, leaving behind resistant bacteria" (paragraph 8)
 * "People can and do die of bacterial infections because an effective antibiotic cannot be found." (paragraph 8)
 * "Educating the patient on the risks of antibiotic misuse is essential." (paragraph 10)
 * "If the physician does prescribe the antibiotic, it is very important to stress to the patient the need to refrain from taking it for any reason until receiving a government bioterrorism alert." (paragraph 10)
 * "Very recently, through the [|GAARD] project (a collaborative effort sponsored by APUA), two global surveillance groups, SENTRY and the Alexander Project, have detected the first signs of fluoroquinolone resistance in //Haemophilus influenzae//, a respiratory tract infectious agent" (paragraph 11)
 * "The real danger is that we will lose the efficacy of this drug very rapidly as homes across America begin to use it." (paragraph 7)
 * "Widespread use of ciprofloxacin will kill a great number of bacteria that are susceptible to ciprofloxacin." (paragraph 7)
 * "The bacteria that are not killed will be those that evolve resistance to ciprofloxacin." (paragraph 7)
 * "These ciprofloxacin-resistant bacteria can then flourish unchecked by this important antibiotic." (paragraph 7)