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Africa Subsaharan
'Aids cure' in Zambia found to be pesticide
2007-06-03
The Zambian government announced on Friday that a much-trumpeted Aids cure that a local businessman claimed to have discovered has been found to be a pesticide used to clean swimming pools.
Honest to Gawd, we don't make this stuff up...
Tetrasil, a drug which is being promoted by a newspaper proprietor, is a pesticide that was used as a disinfectant, said Albert Mwango, a government specialist in Aids drugs. "This chemical has not been proven by any scientific means that it cures Aids," Mwango was quoted by a state-run newspaper as having told Parliament. "But what has been proven is that it is a pesticide, which was used to disinfect swimming pools," Mwango was further quoted by the Zambia Daily Mail.

Edgar Ngoma, owner of the Weekly Angels newspaper, has been running a series of stories claiming he and his partner in the United States had found the cure for Aids.

"We have a duty to protect lives of our citizens. For a drug to be ingested it has to be certified by the Pharmaceuticals Regulatory Authority," said Simon Miti, a Ministry of Health secretary. Miti, who was also summoned to Parliament to explain the proclaimed Aids cure, said his government had written to Ngoma to follow procedures before he could start administering Tetrasil to HIV carriers.
Posted by:Fred

#7  gah-rhon-teeeeed!

Alaska Paul, heh best virtual cajun accent yet! lol

the pesticide pool cleaner probably haz Chlorine in it..

way hard on dem bugs!
Posted by: RD    2007-06-03 22:46  

#6  Seriously, all medicines are poisions, the trick is to poison the germs and not the patient, I realise the odds of a cure derived from insect poison is highly unlikely, but I'd check all the "Patirnts" treated just to be sure.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-06-03 22:37  

#5  Redneck Jim---If you take enough of the pesticide, it will cure AIDS and everything else you have, gah-rhon-teeeeed! WooooooooWeeeee!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-06-03 14:23  

#4  It's not like his patients are going to complain if it doesn't work, after all. Don't most pesticides act like nerve gasses on the insects?
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-06-03 14:21  

#3  I hate to have to ask.
"Does it work?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-06-03 12:27  

#2  "Guess he didn't pay the $200 filing fee necessary bribes."

There - fixed that for ya', Jim.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-06-03 00:14  

#1  Guess he didn't pay the $200 filing fee.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-06-03 00:11  

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