Can Chocolate Bars With Silver Nanoparticles Cure Ebola? FDA Commissioner Riffs On Fraud

U.S. regulators have come across some serious quackery when it comes to Ebola treatments: Take, for instance, the chocolate bar filled with silver nanoparticles touted to treat the deadly virus, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said at this week’s Advamed conference in Chicago. She’s also seen a marijuana constituent that’s “guaranteed to cure Ebola” – products that keep regulators on their toes to prevent a dissemination of fraud.

“Note to audience: Do note buy,” Hamburg said. But she added that whenever there’s a serious public health and medical challenge like this, there’s also fraud.

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