The
miraculous gun like devise doesn’t need a blood sample and is believed to detect
and cure AIDS and Hepatitis.
The
head of the army’s Engineering Agency said “the military had produced an
'astonishing, miraculous scientific invention' that could detect AIDS,
hepatitis and other viruses without taking blood samples and also purify the
blood of those suffering from the diseases.”
The
claim caused uproar among scientists and the public, with many pointing out
that it had not been properly verified.
'Scientific
integrity mandates that I delay the start of the public release until the
experimentation period is over, to allow for a follow up with patients already
using it,' Egypt’s state news agency MENA quoted Maj. Gen. Gamal el-Serafy,
director of the Armed Forces Medical Department, as saying.
El-Serafy
said doctors had already started testing one of the machines, the so-called
'Complete Cure Device', on 80 Hepatitis C patients who were also being treated
with medication.
Saturday’s
news conference notably dropped any mention of the devices as a cure for AIDS,
only referring to hepatitis.
The original claim in February raised concerns that the military’s offer of seemingly inconceivable future devices would draw Egypt back into a pattern of broken promises by successive rulers who would frequently announce grand initiatives that failed to meet expectations.
Generals
working on the project and pro-military media adopted a defensive stance over
the matter, insisting that the invention would be released to the public and
that any criticism of it was part of a foreign plot to rob Egypt of a major
scientific victory.
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