The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the widely announced experimental drug for Ebola, NanoSilver, said to have stemmed from an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan from one Dr Rima E. Laibow, is actually a pesticide.
The body has therefore warned those claiming that it could prevent or treat Ebola to desist from doing so.
The US agency said it had received consumer complaints about the Ebola claims.
“Individuals promoting these unapproved and fraudulent products must take immediate action to correct or remove these claims or face FDA action,” it said.
Dr Laibow is the Medical Director of an organization called the Natural Solutions Foundation, producer of colloidal nano silver said to have been recommended to Nigeria.
Dismissing Laibow’s claim about the possible efficacy of nanosilver in curing. Ebola, Andrew Maynard wrote on the Risk Science Centre’s website:
Colloidal nano silver – nanometer-sized silver particles suspended in water – has been used by people to self-medicate innumerable conditions for around a century now. Although there is no clear evidence that it has beneficial health effect at low concentrations, it can cause the disease argyria at high concentrations.
Nano silver has been on the radar of researchers and regulators for over a decade now as a substance that may be more toxic than originally thought. As a result, there has been an intense global research effort into its human and ecological toxicity in recent years.
Studies have shown that nanoscale silver particles can be harmful if released into the environment in large quantities, and may possibly cause harm in unexpected ways in the human body under specific. circumstances. Yet there’s been little published on the use of nano silver as a treatment for infectious diseases.
What Nigeria’s ministry of health is doing to ascertain if the experimental drug is right or wrong for Nigerians cannot be immediately.
US Department of Defense Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s own study regarding nanosilver idicates it works by stopping virus replication. It is the replication of the virus in the host cells that keep it alive. With increased viral load, symptoms develop. Then the progression of the symptoms causes death. soooo…if the US DOD study is accurate then why not try it?
nanoscalereslett.com/content/3/4/129
Also interesting fact…CDC owns patent on human ebola virus and all vaccines and medications to treat it? Could this be a motive for the scare tactics applied to nanosilver?
google.com/patents/CA2741523A1
BTW….nanosilver is used in all American burn centers in the form of Silvadene cream applied to burns and also is used to impregnate dressings used on wounds to irradicate wound bed pathogens and promote wound healing. So why would this be allowed if it is a pesticide?