Last week we saw a lot of action in the press with regard to the trial that was conducted in Uganda with the so-called miracle drug MMS. Read more on this story in a blog from Pepijn van Erp (here) and comments below. This is truly amazing, that such a thing can happen in 2013.
It is even more amazing that whilst on a tour through the Central African Republic two staff from Drive Against Malaria were taken hostage by rebels and escaped being murdered. This shows how difficult the battle against malaria can get. Read the full story here.
The 'Fake Drugs Kill' campaign is gaining momentum, slowly but surely. This week the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene distributed information about the petition to all its members, which we are truly grateful for. If you are a member of an organisation, please consider doing the same. Read more here.
This week the world malaria report 2012 came out as hard copy and can be purchased. Find out more here.
CropLife International released a compendium of vector control resources. Read all about it (and download) it here.
Finally, an interesting post-doc position at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. If you have a PhD in Biomedical sciences and have experience with in vivo and in vitro experimental models for drug discovery/development, this may be just what you were looking for. Read the details here.
Enjoy this week's MalariaWorld - the MW team
Comments
MMS.
This Wikipedia article says it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement and an even more incisive article which appeared in the Guardian in 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/15/miracle-mineral-solutions-mms-bleach.
MMS/Malaria
Chlorine Dioxide works to kill parasites in vitro - check. Chlorine Dioxide has proven safety as water purification treatment - check.
... just maybe it works?
Great insight
I would be very interested to see the data on Chlorine Dioxide and Plasmodium spp.. Could you please forward me the papers as I had some difficulty in finding any in the Pubmed database. I did find a lot of patients with better oral hygiene... but I doubt it was due to the killing of malaria parasites lodged in their mouths being killed by their Chloride dioxide-containing mouth-wash.
I was also interested in your argument in favour of Chloride Dioxide, based on two separate and disconnected observations without scientific validity and human safety trials, and thought of two others you might like to endorse:
Bleach kills parasites - check. Bleach is a water disinfectant- check. Could this be the answer?
Extreme heat kills parasites - check. Extreme heat is a water disinfectant - check. Fire, anyone?
any ideas on how patients would react to this logic of yours?
Ricardo Ataíde
Fake trial and/or Ugandan Red Cross covering up a blunder
I've been trying to find out what is the story behind this video. I think the makers of the video somehow managed to mislead the Ugandan Red Cross Society and got their approval for doing this 'trial'. It now dissociates itself completely from the video, but no explanation for the events we see in the video has been given. See my blog for more on this: http://www.pepijnvanerp.nl/2013/05/fake-and-unethical-trial-video-claims-miracle-mineral-solution-cures-malaria/
Pepijn van Erp