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Don’t be a sucker

To the editor;
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To the editor;

The COVID-19 pandemic has swiftly spread around the world although misinformation and bogus treatments have probably spread faster through the world of social media. Scientists were still getting their test tubes out by the time non-scientific cures and bogus treatments were being sold on the internet, but we know where the real answers will come from, or at least we should know.

Perhaps the oddest story relating to bogus and untested treatments is that of the ex-Madagascar Minister of Education minister Rijasoa Andriamanana who planned to buy over two million dollars’ worth of lollipops to help make a herbal treatment less bitter when given to school children. Don’t they know that all good medicine tastes bad - actually that’s an urban myth rather then a fact but people believe these things too easily.

We need to wait till scientists, hopefully, develop a vaccine and spread that around the world.

Ignore the internet wisdom and look for accurate scientific sources of information.

Dennis Fitzgerald

Melbourne, Australia