Egypt’s army claimed it had discovered a cure for AIDS and hepatitis C, prompting widespread outrage that the “breakthrough” is nothing more than a shameless political ploy.
“I defeated AIDS with the grace of my God at the rate of 100% . And I defeated hepatitis C,” said Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Abdel-Atti, head of the Cancer Treatment and Screening center, according to CNN.
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The general boasted Sunday the cure worked on 100% of AIDS patients and over 95% of hepatitis C cases, The New York Times reported.
“Defeating the virus is a very easy process, but God grants wisdom to whoever he wants,” Abdel-Atti said.
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An image from a broadcast on Egypt’s state-run television channel showing the device that supposedly cures AIDS and hepatitis C.
The historic and hard to believe announcement came during a press conference that featured a video of patients “hooked up to boxlike machines. Others were monitored by doctors holding what looked like a hand exerciser attached to an antenna that swiveled, following the patients as they walked,” the Times reported.
Abdel-Atti dubbed the contraption the “Complete Cure Device” and said it draws blood from a patient, destroys the disease and then injected the purified blood back into the patient.
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“I will take the AIDS from the patient and I will nourish the patient on the AIDS treatment. I will give it to him like a skewer of Kofta to nourish him,” said Abdel-Atti, referring to a Middle Eastern meatball, CNN reported.
“I will take it away from him as a disease and give it back to him in the form of a cure,” he said. “This is the greatest form of scientific breakthrough.”
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The cure was met with ridicule and derision by independent Egyptian scientists.
The Guardian also got a look at the device, and said it works like “a mechanical devining rod.”
“It appears to swing towards people who suffer from hepatitis C, remaining motionless in the presence of those who don’t,” The Guardian reported.
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Independent Egyptian scientists scoffed at the announcement and said it undermined faith in the country’s scientific community.
“What has been said is not scientifically disciplined. There is nothing published, and there is nothing in medical conferences, and there is no single eminent professor around the project,” Dr. Gamal Shiha told CNN. “Nothing scientifically relevant has been said.”
Another prominent doctor, Gamal el-Ebaidy, said the bizarre announcement was likely made for the sake of upcoming elections in the country which has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C cases in the world.
“Medicine has nothing to do with politics,” he told the Times.
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