PETALING JAYA: Quack docs and “magic potion” salesmen are benefiting from the pandemic and public worry to supply medical therapies and promote their “miracle merchandise”.
A few of these merchandise, which they declare might “detox” the Hostile Occasions Following Immunisation (AEFI) and vaccine from the physique, are amongst these sought by anti-vaxxers who have been “pressured” to be inoculated or threat dropping their jobs.
Such conmen would promote their merchandise starting from RM200 to hundreds of ringgit.
Medical Mythbusters Malaysia (M3) advisor and co-founder Dr Ahmad Firdaus Mohd Haris instructed The Star that there have been so-called “docs” who claimed that the coronavirus is unreal, and alleged that an individual who has been vaccinated would die in two weeks.
They then would promote their “pure” merchandise as an answer.
“They promote merchandise to “detox vaccine”, “detox AEFI”, homoeopathy vaccine, and another instruments that purportedly forestall Covid-19.
“These instruments can usually be hung in your neck,” he claimed.
Checks by The Star discovered many of those so-called “detox” merchandise are being promoted in messaging teams, social media platforms in addition to on-line shops.
In such teams, supposedly happy customers extolled the merchandise to close miracle degree.
“My youngster and I’ve been utilizing detox by xxx (a sure model) for seven days, we needed to take vaccination … thus far we now have no AEFI, a pal of mine took a vaccine and had a stroke,” shared a person in one of many Telegram teams.
The Star approached one of many sellers who famous that you will need to detox following immunisation with a view to take away “overseas supplies” in our physique.
“In lots of instances, nothing occurred following vaccination, the particular person is effectively, sadly after three months (or) six months, they began to develop AEFI.
“If we all know that v@kseen (vaccine) comprises supplies which can be harmful and dangerous within the brief and future, then cease ready, make an effort to take away the poison, overseas supplies, toxin and different dangerous supplies (from our physique),” the vendor claimed.
The vendor then promoted a detoxing product price RM200, which she claimed may very well be utilized by infants as younger as a month previous and adults as much as 80 years previous.
In the meantime, Dr Ahmad Firdaus stated he was additionally lately alerted of a case the place scammers would do home visits for well being screenings.
The scammers, he added, would carry the titles “Dr” or “professor” and are available together with their medical gear.
“The vendor promotes a RM10 “well being screening” at homes, meals stalls and mosques. He’ll carry alongside take a look at kits and a microscope so that folks can see the “science” behind what they’re promoting.
“After taking a couple of drops of blood, they use the microscope to verify if the affected person has gout, most cancers, gut drawback or if the physique comprises excessive poisonous,” he stated, including that the scammer will then promote their merchandise price nearly RM500.
Dr Ahmad expressed his concern over the matter because it might jeopardise public well being.
“They don’t seem to be professionals, who is aware of whether or not they’re even utilizing sterilised needles to attract blood samples?
“We can not diagnose a affected person with gout solely based mostly on their blood take a look at, or verify for most cancers by our blood below a microscope. It requires greater than that.
“You additionally must be a well-trained pathologist or histopathologist to analyse and browse the blood take a look at consequence,” he added.
In accordance with Dr Ahmad Firdaus, some are even daring sufficient to make outrageous claims that they’ll “kill” or “cut back” the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inside months.
