Polite Dissent

Detective Comics #795 Monsters of Rot, part 2: Knee Deep
Andersen Gabrych, writer
Pete Woods, penciler

In Detective Comics #795, Batman and the Tarantula are investigating a particularly nasty disease known as the mugre. Batman ultimately determines that it is a bacterial infection from the rainforests of Central/South America.

To treat the Tarantula for an exposure to the infection, he injects her with Cipro. He also gives some of the same drug to Commissioner Akins to administer to any sanitation plant employee who may have come into contact with the disease.

Cipro (generic name: ciprofloxacin) is a potent antibiotic and is effective against a wide variety of bacterial infections.

However, I am concerned that:

1. Batman administers it by intramuscular injection. Ciprofloxacin is only supposed to be administered orally or by IV, not by injecting it into a muscle.
2. Batman only used one dose. Bacterial infections need several days of antibiotics to clear up.