Foreign section including: ‘Pure blood’ movement threatens American doctors / Australian intravenous vitamin dispensers Drip IV fined for false claims.
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Every month the Association against Quackery publishes an overview of developments abroad. In this episode: ‘Pure blood’ movement threatens American doctors / Australian intravenous vitamin dispensers Drip IV fined for false claims / American doctor sentenced to prescribe Ivermectin against corona / Three Puerto Ricans charged with misleading the public with healing magnets.
United States: ‘Pure blood’ movement threatens American doctors
In the United States, a ‘Pure Blood’ movement has sprung up on private social media groups where anti-vaxers find each other. They incite each other to take action against doctors administering the Covid-19 vaccine. According to them, the vaccinations are responsible for thousands of deaths. The movement is heard all over the world. In New Zealand, a couple stopped a blood transfusion from their child because they didn’t know if the blood in their eyes was contaminated with the vaccine.
Read more The New Strait Times.
Australia: Intravenous vitamin dispensers Drip IV fined for false claims
The Australian company Drip IV, which claims to solve nutri-differences from a bus with intravenous administration of vitamins, has been fined on twenty counts by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. In total, the company has to pay more than one and a half tons in fines, including for making false claims. For example, Drip IV says it can cure cancer and fatigue as a result of Covid-19 and also that it has a ‘miracle’ remedy. She also administers a drug that can only be prescribed by a doctor.
Read more at Edzard Ernst.
Canada: Warning for natural healer making false claims
Canadian naturopath Darrell Wolfe, who calls himself ‘The Doc of Detox’, claimed to be able to cure HIV thirty years ago and has been fined for doing so. Now he is back and once again claims to be able to cure all kinds of diseases: from chronic fatigue to cancer. He does this from a resort in Mexico where patients have to come and then receive alternative treatments. Experts warn about Wolfe and his practices.
Read more at CBC.
United States: Doctor sentenced to prescribe Ivermectin against corona
A Colorado doctor has been suspended after prescribing Ivermectin, an anti-worm drug, for Covid-19 without first informing his patients about the drug’s side effects and about treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Administration (FDA) are approved.
Read more at MedPage Today.
Puerto Rico: Three people charged with misleading the public with healing magnets
Three directors of Magnetic Healer Inc have been charged with allegedly selling devices that are magnetic and healing. They claimed the devices could cure everything from Covid-19 to depression, although there’s no evidence for that. In doing so, they misled the public and tried to extort money. There is a fine of about three hundred thousand euros hanging over her head.
Read more on the website of the Governor of Puerto Rico.