Posted on 03/24/2020 4:38:23 AM PDT by topfile
March 23 (Reuters) - An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.
The couple, in their 60s, experienced immediate distress after swallowing the drug, an additive used at aquariums to clean fish tanks, according to Banner Health Hospital in Phoenix.
Chloroquine phosphate shares the same active ingredient as malaria drugs that President Trump has touted as possibly effective against COVID-19, the potentially life-threatening disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Darwin at work.
You are so right but please don’t tell anyone I said so.
SIMILAR?
Just because a 'product' contains CHLORINE is no reason to try it!!
Drink some bleach outta yer laundry room!
President Trump needs to get ahead of this too. They’re too many stupid people who will go and see what the mainstream media purposely put out is the same name of the drug that he is saying will help us and they want a meltdown. That is what they want. It is brass knuckle time this is no time for President Trump to act like President Bush and be above The Fray.
Very definitely off-label use, NOT for human consumption.
In fact, it has to be used somewhat sparingly around fish, at very low concentrations, or they go belly up too.
There are some things the human metabolism may NEVER grow accustomed to.
Chloroquine and hydrochloroquine are not the same thing.
Public authorities have already had to warn people not to drink bleach.
I mean, I can’t even ...
Fake news.
But the HEADLINE says "dies after taking chloroquine", NOT "chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product".
Reuters deliberately trying to making it look like the proven malaria drug killed the couple.
You mean it’s not 100% effective?! Oh noes, we must not take it, then!
They each took a teaspoon of the stuff, with an unknown concentration. Maybe 15 times the regular dose.
The dose is everything. If I take 2 paracetamol or 2 aspirin, I’m fine. But if I take 30 of them, I am a dead man.
And this assumes that fish tank cleaner doesn’t contain any other poisonous substances.
a little chlorine in the gene pool
Or if you really want to go for the big chlorine ingestion, just eat a bag of pool shock!
I ***** hate Reuters
OMG!! EVIL FAKE NEWS!! This was NOT the same.....this was for cleaning AQUARIUMS!!
Ozone and Oxygen are similar. O3 and O2.
So, Ozone should be fine. ;)
What else is in the product? What is name of product. There may be other compounds in product which are toxic. Sensationalistic report.
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