By: Frank Murray

Frank Murray — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:53:58 +0000

My new book, Vitamin A and Beta-Carotene Are Miracle Workers, just published by Gyan Books, New Delhi, describes how the 2 low-cost vitamins can help millions of people, who succumb to HIV/AIDS, measles, malaria, diarrhea, blindness, etc., each year. Doctors can save many children with measles in 2 days with 100,000 to 200,000 IU of vitamin A. In one study, 40.15% of the children with malaria had a vitamin A deficiency. In another study, children 6 to 90 months of age received either 200,000 IU of vitamin A or a look-alike pill ever 4 months. Those under 12 months were given 100,000 IU. The supplemented children had significantly fewer clinic attendances, hospital admissions, and death than those given the fake pill.
Deaths from acute gastroenteritis were also lower with the vitamin A group. It is possible that trying to kill mosquitoes is a losing battle, so more effort should be don on how to save malaria patients. The P. falciparum family of mosquitoes is the same family that killed King Tut and his family, who lived in the marshes along the Nile in 1323 B.C. Do we really think we can eliminate all of the mosquitos in the world; there are too many isolated ponds where they can breed. We can still try, but we should spend more time helping malaria patients. Many who need the drugs cannot afford them, and, in some areas, counterfeit drugs are worthless. A member of the New York Academy of Sciences, I am the author and coauthor of 54 books on health and nutrition. My diabetes book was recently added to the official government libraries in India, Kashmir, and Jammu. Thank you, Frank Murray, New York

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