Posted on 11/05/2014 8:34:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The quality of mercy is always strained, but snake oil comes raw and unfiltered, harvested from ever more lethal snakes. You might think the accounts of the suffering of those stricken with the Ebola virus would soften the hearts of snake-oil salesmen. But the more horrific the suffering, the more inspired the sales pitches.
The con men are flooding the Internet and some homeopathic health stores with tonics and elixirs that boast of miraculous powers to prevent or cure sickness from the Ebola virus. The grim fact is that there is neither a preventative nor a cure.
Josephine P. Briggs, a director of alternative medicine at the National Institutes of Health, says many frightened people are falling for the scams. “In light of the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, there are some claims being made about ‘alternative’ treatments for Ebola that I find very concerning,” she says.
One purported cure is called Ebola-C. This $35 bottle of pills offers 554 percent of the recommended daily dose of vitamin C to boost the patient’s immune system to withstand the virus. There’s no evidence that it does.
A California homeopathic doctor bought space in African newspapers advertising a “digitized eRemedy” for the virus. This consists of two 10-second audio clips of white noise to stimulate the body “to enhance its own functioning on every level immune system, circulatory system, energy, organ function, psyche.” Tuning a radio slightly off-station will produce the identical static, and with identical results.
A website called Natural News offers a deadly home “remedy” made up of blood from a person infected with Ebola, a little whisky and tap water. Infected blood is precisely one of the body fluids that spreads the disease, and it was removed from the Web.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
How low can you go?
PING!
“A website called Natural News offers a deadly home “remedy” made up of blood from a person infected with Ebola, a little whisky and tap water. Infected blood is precisely one of the body fluids that spreads the disease, and it was removed from the Web.”
:( I wish I could say it is a liberal site but unfortunately that is not the case.
Additionally, I've read that the Ebola virus does not fare well in sunlight.
And, of course if you're outside then you're not cooped up close quarters with potentially-infected people.
And, being outside, you're probably more active, which certainly must also be good for the immune system.
Just speculation.
since drugs are (by far), the biggest buyers of ads, they are now setting us up to get ebola vaccinations.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Nano silver.......doesnt cure ebola....but it does kill 650 human pathogens ......and increase the effectiveness of various anti-biotics......
http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/08/nigerian-scientist-develops-trial-ebola.html
I read what is on that particular site. Some of it is interesting yet I wonder how much is hype and doomsday scare mongering?
Thanks for the ping!
Except I thought the scientists were using blood from persons who survived their bouts with ebola...?
Apparently, but is there proof this helps?
Maybe that’s why they are so amped up to get some American ebola “survivors” stateside?
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