bombastic announcement in February had been largely met with an embarrassed silence from Egyptian medical professionals, and was widely criticised as a propaganda feint intended to burnish the armys credentials as protectors of the nation. Advertisement Particular ridicule was saved for his suggestion that the cure could be fed to patients in a kebab. The furore did not stop over 70,000 people from signing up via email to to try the new treatment, according to independent news website Youm7. Egypt has one of the highest hepatitis C infection rates in the world. The devices credibility had unravelled yet further in the run-up to their expected launch. On Tuesday, a local news website Egpyt Independent claimed that Abdelattys research had not been peer reviewed. Egypt Independents editorial team said they had submitted an obviously incoherent and heavily plagiarised article to the journal in which research on the cure had been published, and received notification of its acceptance within just 24 hours.
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