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Article

24 Oct 2001

Author:
Laura Meckler, Associated Press

HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] reaches deal with maker of Cipro on cutting price to government

Federal officials and Bayer Corp. agreed Wednesday on a lower price for the government to stockpile the antibiotic Cipro, the most popular anti-anthrax drug. The pharmaceutical company will sell the government 100 million pills at 95 cents each, a cost of $95 million. That's a savings of $82 million from Bayer's original price of $1.77 a pill...Also Wednesday, Bayer donated 2 million tablets of Cipro to the Postal Service, which has put thousands of workers on the antibiotic as a precaution. Another 2 million will be given to fire fighters, health care workers and police