I am new to the list, but not new to colloidal silver. I recently was sent
an article written in the Detroit Free Press, which has the usual claptrap
trying to discredit any and all alternative medicine and protocols. I
believe the author of the article got her information from this source:
http://medserv.dk/print.php?sid=1010
Typically what they will do is pick a few unscrupulous marketers and
attempt to give the impression that all are one in the same. I have much
experience with this in just my family alone, but also with many others. I
have already replied to the writer and would encourage others to do the
same. I have yet to find a reliable source to tell me one way or another if
CS is effective against anthrax, although I know of other methods. For the
inhalation variety, CS is probably one of if not the only method to use,
assuming the pathogen will succomb to CS.
The Free Press article is:
FIGHTING ANTHRAX: From oregano to silver, Internet offers treatments
But caution is urged because so-called cures as reliable as snake oil
October 24, 2001
BY ELLEN CREAGER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Can anthrax infection be prevented by drinking colloidal silver, rubbing
oil of oregano on your skin or wearing a $750 gas mask?
Internet marketers are seeking to make a buck on people's fears. Buyers
beware.
Colloidal silver, a suspension of silver particles in water, was used in
the 19th Century to fight infection before the invention of antibiotics.
Believers claim colloidal silver can cure not only anthrax poisoning, but
AIDS, leukemia, typhoid, venereal diseases and other infections.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, however,
says it doesn't work. Consuming colloidal silver can turn a person's skin
blue or gray permanently, a condition called algyria, from the buildup of
silver in the body.
The Food and Drug Administration outlawed its sale in 1999. But that hasn't
stopped a city in Florida, Howey-in-the-Hills, which is north and west of
Orlando, from adding colloidal silver to its drinking water as an
antianthrax measure, or multiple Internet sites from spamming consumers.
A Provo, Utah, company called Golden Life sells it by the gallon, for $96.
A site called B & A Products of Bunch, Okla., sells a
make-your-own-colloidal-silver kit for $75.
Other pitches to prey on people's anthrax fears?
Sites that sell the antianthrax antibiotic Cipro at exorbitant prices
without a prescription. Many of them use the pitch, "Protect Your Family!"
or appeal to nervous consumers to get the drug before it's gone. Some of
the Cipro is likely fake or comes in uneven doses, warns the FDA. It's
illegal to sell Cipro without a prescription.
Sites that offer elaborate gas masks.
One Millersville, Md., company sells an electronic gas mask for $750.
Simpler masks, such as B & D's Air Aid Masks (10 for $34) are sold out, as
are all their respirators, the company said Tuesday. Another site shouts
"Buy the gas mask used by the FBI!" Such gas masks are useless without
regularly-changed filters.
Sites offering to douse your mail with sterilizing steam, gamma rays or UV
radiation.
"Sterilizes up to 200 No. 10 envelopes in 40 minutes!" advertises one, Alfa
Medical, promoting its $2,799 personal-use autoclave.
Sites pitching herbs, homeopathic treatments or other alternative medicine
to treat anthrax poisoning.
Natures Wonders of Callahan, Fla., instructs consumers how to use Oil of
Oregano essential oil ($72.95) against skin anthrax. The oil has slight
antibacterial properties, a poor way to combat anthrax's fierce endotoxins.
Contact ELLEN CREAGER at 313-222-6498 or at [email protected] <
mailto:[email protected]>.
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