The US
Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products
being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola.
Reuters
reports that US FDA’s warning comes on the heels of comments by Nigeria’s
health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, who said eight Ebola
patients in Lagos, the country’s capital, will receive an experimental
treatment called Nano-silver.
The
American doctor promoting Nano-silver is Dr. Rima Laibow, a 1970 graduate of
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who said she has a cure for the Ebola
virus disease and whose treatment is now made available to Nigeria by an
unnamed donor ─ has been campaigning against the “conspiracy” of conventional
drug makers.
The US FDA did not specify any
products in its warning.
Erica
Jefferson, a spokeswoman for the US FDA, said she could not provide any
information about the product referenced by the
Nigerians. Silver has been used as an antibacterial for centuries. Tiny silver
particles known as nano-silver have controversially been incorporated into a
variety of consumer products such as socks and bedding to help block odours
caused by bacteria and mould.
The US Environmental Protection
Agency considers nano-silver a pesticide. Manufacturers of products that
contain it must register them with the agency.
Nano-silver is also sometimes sold
online as a dietary supplement even though Danish researchers found in a recent
study that nano-silver can penetrate and damage cells.
Laibow has been fighting for ages against what she
calls the “conspiracy of the elite” ─ she thinks many conventional drugs are
just for the big companies to make money.
For
instance, she has argued several times that autism is caused by vaccines which
the “global elite” created in order to make profit. She has already written a
book on it: “Autism: The Inside Job”.
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