The leader of an American church group claiming it has a cure for Ebola, HIV, cancer and many more illnesses is coming to New Zealand this weekend to promote the product, Radio New Zealand reports.
Founder of the Genesis II church Jim Humble was also touring Australia where authorities were warning the product was extremely dangerous and had put people in hospital.
The church's website claimed that over the past 17 years, its Miracle Mineral Solution has cured almost every disease in the world including Aids, cancer and malaria.
But Australian Medical Association Victoria president Tony Bartone said it had the same ingredients as bleach, and was far from a miracle cure.
“There is absolutely no proof or any suggestion to say it's anything more than bleach,” he said.
“We know people have ended up in hospital with the effects of poisoning from the solution ... It has no place in our society.”
Chair of the Medical Association Mark Peterson said people should steer clear of the so-called miracle cure.
“It could be dangerous and to be honest the people promoting this need to be very careful about promotion, or of claiming health effects of a solution, because that's actually against the law.”
The seminar was taking place at the Ngatea Water Gardens, north of Auckland. Its owner, Roger Blake, denied the product was harmful.
He said the solution was not just bleach and he had been selling it for years without any complaints.
“Science, and it is a known fact, tells us that it will kill virtually all pathogens, [and] bacterial, viral and fungal problems,” he said.
This Genesis II church Miracle Mineral Solution sounds like the business. If I doesn't cure your cancer it will at least clean your toilet.
— CHRIS BRAIN (@Chris_Brain) November 4, 2014
