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NEWS RELEASE

 

 

 

Release: No.105-EV/66

 

Date Mailed: April 23, 2003

 

For Immediate Release

 

Contact: Elaine Zacky—208/265-2575; 800/336-9266

 

 

 

Natural Products Associations Issue SARS Directive to

 

Stop Developing Natural Treatments: Critics Cry Foul

 

 

Sandpoint, ID—A coalition of trade organizations under the direction of the

American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) and the National Nutritional Foods

Association (NNFA) declared war on many members, and the American public, by

issuing a directive to stop all activities relating to the development and

marketing of natural health products for the prevention and treatment of SARS.

 

The notice, issued by AHPA’s Director of Communications, Robin Gellman

(rgellman) on April 21, allegedly on behalf of “the majority of dietary

supplement manufacturers,” stated that “there are some health conditions for

which the choice of self-care should be actively discouraged. The current global

outbreak of SARS is such a condition.”

 

The AHPA’s bulletin titled “Industry Coalition Advises Against Use of

Supplements as Remedy for SARS,” urged “marketers and retailers of dietary

supplements . . . to refuse to stock or sell any products that are presented as

preventing or curing SARS,” and to “refrain from promoting any dietary

supplement as a preventive, cure or treatment for SARS.” The “coalition” also

stated “therapies for the prevention or treatment of SARS should only be

recommended by qualified healthcare professionals or public health authorities.”

 

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a public health authority and internationally known expert

in emerging viruses called the advisory, “par for the course for drug industry

controlled lobby groups. It is no secret the boards of directors of these

organizations have been heavily stacked, in recent years, with pharmaceutical

industrialists.”

 

Many medical doctors routinely prescribe, and even depend on, over the counter

natural health products, including herbs and homeopathics, for boosting patients

immunity.

 

“This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard,” said national radio talk

show host and medical doctor Stanley Monteith. Commenting on the AHPA’s notice

he said, “The natural products industry has been important in the development of

immune enhancing products for SARS and everything else. This notice is

ridiculous.”

 

Dr. Joseph Puleo, President of the World Natural Health Organization and

co-author of Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse (Tetrahedron;

1-888-508-4787), which prescribes herbs recommended in the Bible, said the AHPA

and NNFA announcement was “simply horrible!” “Foods, herbs, and oils are our

medicines. Are these organizations telling us to put down our Bibles for

political expediency, in the case of SARS, and pick up their propaganda?”

 

Dr. Puleo has worked with colleagues since the beginning of the SARS outbreak in

Canada, to develop an herbal tincture to help prevent and treat the illness. “I

will not cower to these special interest groups. Nor will the people and

companies with whom I work.”

 

Most authorities agree with the AHPA’s position that “therapies for the

prevention or treatment of SARS should only be recommended by qualified

healthcare professionals or public health authorities.” However, to actively

discourage “self-care” for SARS, Dr. Horowitz says, “reflect these

organizations’ combined ignorance. The term ‘self-care’ technically refers to

the process by which health care is administered by patients closely following

physicians’ instructions. So technically, the announcement relays a mixed

message. ‘Self help’ is the correct term to which they are referring. With SARS,

frightened and undereducated consumers may be influenced by unscrupulous parties

to take harmful actions. This is precisely what the AHPA and NNFA are covertly

endorsing given the fact that the risky antiviral drug Ribaviron, never tested

against the SARS virus, was being prescribed by physicians and public health

authorities since the beginning of the outbreak. Who’s making the money t!

here? Who’s being harmed? And why encourage increased risks to the public’s

health?”

 

Alternatively, in recent weeks, Dr. Horowitz and his colleagues have been hard

at work advancing scientific documentation regarding two plant extracts that

could put an end to SARS. Studies show the natural products prompted “complete

inhibition of coronavirus induced cell death.”

 

Given his unique perspectives, having been a featured speaker at many NNFA

meetings in past years, Dr. Horowitz established a website recently called

www.SARSscam.com in which this new industry “advisory” will be prominently

displayed. “Make no mistake,” he says, “these traitor groups are serving global

industrialists’ interests more than they are the publics’.”

 

Recommending an immediate mass exodus of members from these organizations, Dr.

Horowitz has issued an “advisory” of his own. “They have become pharmaceutical

prostitutes,” he warns, “and unless they turn from this hypocrisy, I want

nothing to do with them, nor should you.”

 

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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: For more information or an interview with Robin Gellman,

call 301-588-1171 x107; Dr. Horowitz may be reached by calling 1-800-336-9266;

Dr. Monteith may be reached by calling 1-800-544-8927. Dr. Puleo may be

contacted by e-mail at doctorp.

 

 

 

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