There is only scant scientific evidence to support using the vaccine to treat anthrax after exposure.

Experts recommend two or more antibiotics to treat inhalational anthrax because this is the most lethal type.

When treating inhalational anthrax, a combination of antibiotics should be used.

Many experts, however, say Cipro would probably be useless in treating anthrax.

Antibiotics treat anthrax successfully when given soon after exposure.

In addition, they may be used to treat anthrax, plague, tularemia, and Legionnaires' disease.

The antibiotics used to treat or prevent anthrax, however, can interfere with the tests, potentially leaving the final diagnosis in doubt.

Cipro is one of the antibiotics used to treat anthrax.

But as doctors and public health officials have been saying, Cipro is not necessarily the undisputed drug of choice to treat anthrax.

Cipro, an antibiotic specifically approved to treat anthrax, was suddenly in huge demand.