X-Message-Number: 9382
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:38:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Latest Visser News

I have been in correspondence with a Portugese journalist who is writing
about Olga Visser, the Portugese woman who moved to South Africa and
claims to cure AIDS patients with "Virodene"--a substance which, by truly
amazing coincidence, she also used as a cryoprotectant when freezing rat
hearts. (Tact inhibits me from reiterating any more details about that.)

According to my source (see below) Olga is quite a celebrity in Portugal,
and is hoping to market Virodene there, after her unfortunate experience
in South Africa, where the Medicines Control Council required that
Virodene be withdrawn.

But wait--Olga may still prevail in South Africa after all! Her friend in
government seems to have OVERTURNED the decision of the Medicines Control
Council, and the South African government may market Virodene itself!
(Naturally I would like some confirmation of this if anyone has checked
South African news sources recently.) According to email that I received
this morning from my journalist contact in Portugal:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:31:58 -0000
From: =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Gra=3DE7a_Rosendo?=3D <>
To: "''" <>
Subject: olga visser

Allo, Mr Platt
Do you know that the south-african government suspend the activity of de
Medicines Control Council? The MCC rejected for four times the Virodene
trial in human and was always telling that the work of Visser's team was
not good and releable enough to be test in people. Ms Visser tell us,
last week, that she allways had the support of the Health minister, Ms
Zuma.
Before this decision, the Democratic Party reveled that ANC was
interested in the Virodene commercialization. Curious, is'n it?
Gra=E7a Rosendo
(sorry about my english)

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