Earlier this year, military engineering Authority of Egypt has announced a portable instrument that could detect a variety of viral infections without touching a person, and another device that erases the blood of a patient virus. the large-scale treatment of Egyptian patients with both devices was to begin today, but military officials said Saturday they delay deployment for 6 months.
The decision comes after months of controversy. According to government officials, the treatments not only eliminate AIDS and hepatitis at home and Egypt has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C in the world, but also make a fortune as foreign patients are flocking to the country . While Western scientific community ridiculed devices as pseudoscience, Egyptian academics were largely silent. the country's military regime was pronounced severe criminal penalties for its critics, including journalists. But an Egyptian expatriate scientist Islam Hussein has created videos, one of which garnered over 100,000 views on YouTube a lot since they are PowerPoint presentations 80 minutes in Arabic explaining the scientific problems of the devices. Like most top scientific talent from Egypt, Hussein, 36, left his country. After a PhD in virology at the University of Cambridge in the UK, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the United States, where he studied bird flu. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity
Q:.? What do you know about these devices
A: The first is called C-FAST. [The Egyptian Armed Forces] claim that the antenna of this device can detect a patient infected at a distance of up to 500 meters. The device does not even need a battery; It is powered by static electricity from the body. The allegedly antenna detects the electromagnetic waves emitted by the vibrations of the hepatitis C virus genome in a specific manner to the sequence. C-FAST is one of a large series of devices which detects several viral infections: HIV, hepatitis C, influenza, coronavirus MERS, virus and malaria. Yes, malaria [which is a parasitic cell] is now promoted to the rank of a virus.
The second is called the complete device priest [CCD], much like a dialysis machine. She draws blood from the patient using a pump. The contaminated blood is passed through a spiral tube expensive, it consists of a highly specialized material as its 7 years manufacturer applications have to develop. The tube emits radiation mysterious secret that military kills the virus, then the blood is returned to the body
Q :. ? What makes implausible
[has: for C-FAST, the research team has presented no scientific evidence that electromagnetic waves emitted by acid viral nucleic still detectable, and even less of diagnosis. A discovery of this caliber deserves Science or Nature paper. They claim that the electromagnetic signal of each virus is like a fingerprint that can be programmed on a small chip inside the C-FAST device. Replacing a C chip with a hepatitis to influenza, a device becomes capable of detecting the electromagnetic signal specific to influenza and so on.
As for the CCD, we have not even a single scientific publication describing how this device is safe and effective. We heard three contradictory mechanisms of action. Exposing the blood of a patient to a radiation hepatitis C him rid replicating in the liver or HIV integrated into the genome of infected CD4 + cells. They claim to have done experiments with chimpanzees; they even claim that thousands of people have been treated in a clinical trial. Again, where is the data
Q :? Are the Egyptian scientists speaking about
A: Essam Heggy, a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and former adviser of ex-president Egypt, issued a statement that the whole thing is a big scandal. He was attacked by Egyptian media day and night. Outside Heggy, very few Egyptian doctors have spoken
Q:.? What motivated you to make these videos
A: I could not 't stand watching this happen in my home country and keep silent about it. This "cure" will affect millions of Egyptians, side effects of an unregulated therapeutic device, potentially toxic to false expectations that lead people infected do not take precautions
Q :. Are you worried about getting noticed by the government
A: no, I'm not worried. These videos were all about science and science only. There is no reason why the current regime or someone the Egyptian armed forces to get angry with what I said
Q:.? What impact do you hope to have
A: Many people have made fun of the devices. However, no one took the initiative to take them seriously and explain to the public why these claims are unfounded. I also hoped that my voice will reach the people behind these inventions and persuade them to change their course of action.
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