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An alternative health advocate who popularized drinking bleach as a COVID-19 cure in South America is under investigation after 2 deaths
A complaint was filed in Argentina against Kalcker after the death of a boy, 5, and a man, 50, who …
Tom Porter
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A leader of a movement touting toxic bleach as a 'miracle' COVID-19 cure has been charged following a 5-year-old boy's death
Argentinian authorities charged Andreas Kalcker, a German national, with falsely promoting a type o…
Tom Porter
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South Americans used Facebook groups to share images and stories of using toxic bleach to treat COVID-19 and cancer after misinformation swept the continent
On Facebook an alternative medical movement is spreading misinformation about chlorine dioxide, a b…
Tom Porter,Qayyah Moynihan
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Bolivia's senate approved 'miracle mineral solution' — a toxic bleach with no medical use — as a treatment for COVID-19
The substance, chlorine dioxide, is banned as a medical treatment in several countries but has beco…
Tom Porter
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Facebook axed South American pages and groups promoting bleach as a COVID-19 cure after an Insider investigation
The group, Comusav, was using Facebook to push chlorine dioxide bleach as a COVID-19 treatment acro…
Tom Porter
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Bolivia's new government is encouraging people to take toxic bleach as a cure for COVID-19, a victory for a months-long disinformation campaign
Bolivia's health minister, Edgar Pozo, endorsed so-called "Miracle Mineral Solution," a toxic and t…
Tom Porter
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Bolivia's biggest political party promised to legalize a toxic bleach to treat COVID-19. After winning a landslide victory, there is nothing to stop it
The triumph of Bolivia's MAS party was hailed by socialists worldwide, but it also marked a triumph…
Tom Porter
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Bolivia's lawmakers have approved 'Miracle Mineral Solution' — a toxic bleach — as a treatment for COVID-19. Only the president can stop it becoming law
Bolivian lawmakers are pushing to legalise a substance which its own health ministry has warned has…
Tom Porter
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Advocates of a toxic bleach fake 'miracle cure' are telling desperate people it can cure the coronavirus in thriving groups on Telegram
Kerri Rivera and other advocates of so-called Miracle Mineral Solution are taking advantage of the …
Tom Porter
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A dangerous movement hyping toxic bleach as a 'miracle cure' is more powerful than ever after exploiting the pandemic in Latin America
A bleach-drinking movement backed by politicians, crank medics, and local celebrities has been swee…
Tom Porter
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How an entire nation embraced toxic bleach as a COVID-19 miracle cure after a tide of misinformation that authorities couldn't counter
Bolivia is in chaos, and advocates of a toxic-bleach "miracle cure" have exploited the situation an…
Tom Porter,Ruqayyah Moynihan
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Bolivians are drinking a toxic bleach, wrongly believing it will ward off COVID-19. Many end up in the hospital.
A Business Insider investigation has identified a network of controversial medics promoting toxic b…
Tom Porter
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A fringe movement that claims bleach is a miracle cure is jubilant after Trump floated injecting disinfectant as a treatment for COVID-19
Campaigners fear Trump's remarks will boost a fringe medical movement claiming that toxic bleach cu…
Tom Porter
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Officials in Argentina raided labs producing toxic bleach as a COVID-19 treatment after a misinformation campaign fueled its popularity
Advocates of a toxic bleach "miracle cure" have used the coronavirus pandemic to popularize the sub…
Tom Porter,Qayyah Moynihan
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Conspiracy theorists are pushing toxic bleach and other harmful treatments they claim can 'de-vaccinate' people
Private messaging channels are awash with dangerous advice for people who want to remove COVID-19 v…
Tom Porter
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Taking toxic bleach MMS has killed 7 people in the US, Colombian prosecutors say — far more than previously known
Medical experts have long warned the substance can be fatal, but evidence of fatalities was not kno…
Tom Porter
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Conspiracy theorists are telling people to drink a dangerous bleach solution to cure or prevent coronavirus
YouTuber Jordan Sather, who has previously promoted the QAnon conspiracy, claimed on Twitter that t…
Gabby Landsverk
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A Florida family were convicted of selling a bleach solution as a COVID-19 cure in a scheme first exposed by Insider
Mark Grenon and his sons created a fake church to sell toxic bleach as a miracle cure, prosecutors …
Tom Porter
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An academic whose work helps legitimize MMS, a bogus miracle cure that is actually bleach, lost his title after his study was branded 'scientifically worthless'
"This is too rapid for a legitimate review. If a journal really cares about the validity of the pa…
Tom Porter,Tom Porter
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The self-styled archbishop of a fake Florida church has been arrested in Colombia on charges of selling bleach as a COVID-19 cure
Mark Grenon led the Florida-based Genesis II church. He faces US federal charges over the sale of s…