AIDS ‘cure’ needs more tests: Egypt

EGYPT’S MILITARY said Saturday that a device it claimed it invented to cure A AIDS and hepatitis C needs six more months of testing.

“Scientific integrity mandates that I delay the start of t the public release until the experimentation period is over, to allow for a followup w with patients already using it,” Egypt’s state news agency MENA quoted Maj. Gen. Gamal el-Serafy, director of t the armed forces medical department, as saying.

The army had earlier promised to reveal the technology to the public this coming Monday after making what experts dismissed as an outlandish claim last February.

At a news conference t then, the head of the army’s Engineering Agency said t the military had produced an “astonishing, miraculous” set of inventions that could detect AIDS, hepatitis and other viruses without t taking blood samples and also purify the blood of those suffering from the diseases.