The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has declared that
Nano-Silver, the drug the Ministry of Heath in Nigeria is planning to
use for Ebola infected patients in the country is a pesticide.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a
chief U.S. regulatory body, has made known its worries known over the
safety of nano-silver, the name given to the experimental drug Nigeria’s
ministry of health announced it would be using to treat eight Ebola
patients in Lagos.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has however
classified nano-silver as a known anti-bacterial used to fight mold and
other bacteria, hence, calling it a pesticide.
Erica
Jefferson, claimed they could not find or verify any information on
the treatment, though they did not explicitly call it by name. Although the Nigerian government claims the treatment was given by a Nigerian scientist in the diaspora, but did not give the doctor’s name, the US FDA has however revealed that the makers of the drugs are not recognized which means the drug has not been tested.
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