(Sandpoint, Idaho) — Cipro and smallpox vaccine have much in common
besides capturing America’s urgent attention in recent weeks.

The parent companies that produce these favored elixirs for
anthrax and smallpox bioterrorism are linked, strangely enough,
to an infamous history involving contaminated blood, the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and even the Nazis —
associations that the FBI doesn’t seem anxious to explore.

Cipro is produced by Germany’s Bayer AG, while the
smallpox vaccine’s newly formed producers are Acambis
(previously OraVax), partnered with Baxter and Aventis—created
in 1999 by parent companies Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc. All have
jaded histories.

The “Big Three”—Bayer, Baxter, and Rhone-Poulenc are
infamously known for having infected more than 7,000 American
hemophiliacs with the AIDS virus during the early 1980s. They
admitted foreknowledge in selling HIV-tainted blood clotting
products and settled the class action case for $100,000 per
claimant.