Docs warn £30 ‘cure’ for Aussie flu a scam

A BIZARRE killer flu “cure” being touted on Facebook for £29.99 has been dismissed by doctors.

They say the device has no healing powers and is a “scam”.

Sellers of the High-Intensity UltraSound unit claim it will leave you free of Australian flu “almost instantly”.

But medics branded the claims “beyond ridiculous”.

The illness has claimed more than 50 lives this winter, according to figures from Public Health England. Experts have warned the outbreak could be more severe than the swine flu pandemic, which killed almost 300,000 people worldwide.

Facebook users selling the miracle flu cure are targeting groups with a sales link, meaning anyone who has posted about Australian flu or searched for it on the social networking site could see an advert for the gizmo.

The site reads: “You apply a High Intensity UltraSound unit, 30 minutes on each side of the chest, throat and nose.

Plus 20 seconds each side of the lower torso.

“All flu gone almost instantly. No trip to the GPs, no defective prescription.

“You can use a

150W 40 kHz, or the more recent 8W

1MHz ultrasound massage device.

“Your Dr has had an 8W 3MHz ultrasound device since it was medically proved to remove all cancers in one minute. For the last 16 years, all cancer drugs have been defective, criminal medicine. Cancer was cured 2002. As simply as all flu can be.”

Dr Steve Iley from Bupa UK branded the device “a scam”.

He said: “There is a lack of evidence to back up that using this device has any impact on improving this or any strain of flu.”

While Dr Clare Morrison, a GP working at medexpress.co.uk, warned: “Anxiety about flu tends to make people susceptible to ‘old wives tales’ or quack remedies.”

She said it was “beyond ridiculous to imagine that it might help to treat the flu”.

Flu cases have tripled in the UK after the strain hit from Australia.