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To
The Editor
New York Times
letters@nytimes.com
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Ref: August 16, 2014, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: Agencies Issue Warnings Over Bogus Ebola Cures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/science/agencies-issue-warnings-over-bogus-ebola-cures.html?_r=0
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To the Editor:
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I am a Trustee of the Natural Solutions Foundation along with its
founders, Rima E. Laibow, MD and Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III (US
Army Ret.). We are responding to your August 16, 2014 article, “
Agencies Issue Warnings Over Bogus Ebola Cures” (page A6) which mentions our Foundation and provides several incorrect data points and implications.
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It is
not true that we provided Nigeria with Nano Silver.
This erroneous statement in the New York Times should be publicly
retracted. In fact, we have made the point, in writing, several times,
that we know nothing about this doctor, his supposed silver, its
research base (if any), its composition, concentration, purity or
particle size, all of which are critical to the action of a nutrient
nano-solution like Nano Silver.
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We have also made the point in writing, video and podcasts numerous
times that we are in close contact with the manufacturer of the same
Nano Silver 10 PPM which was tested
in vitro against the Ebola
virus and found to be highly effective in inactivating Ebola virus in
the research declassified by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the
US Department of Defense in 2009. That company confirms that no one
secured enough Nano Silver from them to match the shipment allegedly
brought to Nigeria, so that there was no likely possibility that it
could be the same Nano Silver 10 PPM of which we had spoken and written.
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Your article further states that Dr. Rima was unavailable for comment
and that questions emailed to her were not answered. She has no record
of any correspondence from the New York Times or anyone writing on
their behalf so that your assertion that she did not respond to your
questions is correct since she never received them, nor did she receive
any phone calls. Her 3 VOIP phone numbers, 3 cell phone numbers and one
land line numbers uniformly show no record of any attempted or missed
calls from North America. Thus, she was not able to respond to your
calls for the same reason: she did not receive them. Dr. Rima has made
herself available for dozens of interviews over the past few days.
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Natural Solutions Foundation was established in 2004 with a
specific Mission: To Discover, Develop, Demonstrate, Document and
Disseminate natural solutions to pressing social issues. Since that time
we have grown to become the premiere global health freedom association,
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org.
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Rima E. Laibow, MD, our Medical Director, is a world-renowned
physician practicing environmental and natural medicine and psychiatry.
She has practiced drug-free medicine for over 44 years, primarily in New
York State where she has been licensed from 1971. She holds inactive
licenses in two other States.
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In 2007 she addressed a meeting of 47 African Ministers of Health in
Mombasa, Kenya at the invitation of the President of the organization of
Ministers of Health. In her address, she warned the Ministers and
their staff members about emerging viral diseases and urging adoption of
natural means to respond to such diseases, citing such measures
Intravenous Vitamin C and nutrient Nano Silver 10 PPM as primary natural
remedies.
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The President of the Foundation, known as “General Bert”, was the
Commanding General of US Army Intelligence and Security Command when he
retired from the Army. He has, since his retirement from the Army,
become the chief strategist for global health freedom efforts. I
practiced law for 36 years in the NY metro area, specializing in dietary
supplement regulatory issues.
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While the FDA and CDC are technically correct that “there is no
approved treatment for Ebola…” that often repeated mantra is deceptive
and misleading. FDA has legal authority which includes approval or
denial of approval ONLY for pharmaceutical drugs that are presented by
the industry. It is critically important to this issue to understand
that, under the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act of 1994
(DSHEA) this agency HAS NO AUTHORITY TO EITHER APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE
DSHEA-grandfathered nutrient substances such as Nano Silver when they
are offered to support the normal structure and function of the body.
We have always been careful in that regard; when Dr. Rima Recommends
Nano Silver, or any other natural solution, the recommendation is solely
as a nutrient therapy that may benefit, as permitted under FDA
guidelines and regulations.
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In 2009 the United States Government declassified the DTRA (Defense
Threat Research Agency) Nano Silver Ebola Study. The study was cleared
for release via authorization 88ABW-2009-4491 and funded by DTRA through
proposal #4.10036_07_AHB_B and JSTO/DTRA-NRC. The study was verified
through the Public Relations office of DTRA under an informal Freedom of
Information request recently filed by the Natural Solutions Foundation.
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That study, conducted
in vitro with active hemorrhagic
viruses including Ebola, definitively showed that Nano Silver 10 PPM
inhibits viral reproduction by supporting normal cell membrane structure
and function, thereby stopping the virus before it can adhere to the
cell, penetrate it or reproduce.
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There is nothing speculative about this research: the results are quite definitive.
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This is not a Drug Effect (prescription drugs work by poisoning
enzyme systems to suppress symptoms). Nano Silver does not act like a
drug; rather it is a nutrient that nourishes normal response to viral
invaders.
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The biological immune support functions of this nutrient are well-known and characterized by a massive scientific literature.
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Nano Silver has been approved by the EPA as a not-toxic surface
sanitizer for hospital, food service and other industrial environments,
and as such, can have a vital role in stopping Ebola.
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But Nano Silver is also a nutrient and may be used for immune system
support, and as such, will save lives and may contain the disease.
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Now, during this humanitarian crisis, WHO tells us it is ethical to
try “unapproved interventions.” Humanitarian considerations must trump
the niceties of regulatory law. Our Foundation, exercising our
inalienable expressive association rights, has donated a small supply of
Nano Silver 10 PPM and silver gel to one of the “Ebola front line
states” , and made a larger quantity available to another one of the
front line states at the request of the their government. Those states
do not include Nigeria although Dr. Rima has made serious efforts to get
the correct Nano Silver 10 PPM to the government of that country,
without success.
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That Nano Silver 10 PPM which has been provided is identical to that
used in the above referenced study. It is being provided in cooperation
with people from those countries both in their home nations and in the
United States, as well as with the public health authorities there, for
the purpose of an emergency clinical test of Nano Silver in vivo. It is
our expectation that Nano Silver can be an important tool in containing
the Ebola Outbreak which is now breaking-out, threatening a world-wide
pandemic.
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Mapp Biopharmaceuticals has received at least $140 million dollars
for the development of its experimental, untested, unproven drug. A
Canadian vaccine maker is being paid handsomely for its experimental,
untested and unproven vaccine. Neither has an established scientific
and clinical record of safety while inexpensive, safe, non-toxic Nano
Silver 10 PPM is under what can only be called vicious attack.
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At the same time that the New York Times incorrectly and inaccurately
castigates both Nano Silver and the Natural Solutions Foundation, it
suggests the use of Statin drugs against Ebola, as wild, wooly and
bizarre a speculation as any snake oil salesman ever concocted.
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The double standard is shocking and disappointing since the New York
Times holds itself to a higher standard than supermarket checkout
tabloids, or maintains that it does.
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It is time for the conflict of interest-ridden FDA and CDC, whose
track records in objective public safety are shamefully lacking, to
finally stop misinforming the public about the potential therapeutic
benefits of Nano Silver 10 PPM and stop actively obstructing the natural
solutions to this humanitarian emergency.
Sincerely,
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Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Trustee and Counsel
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
