State Takes Action Against "Miracle Treatment" For Children

NBC Chicago / NBC 5 Investigates report, published 24 June 2015 (page datePublished metadata: 2015-06-24T22:32:01-05:00). Fetched directly. Reports that former Chicagoan Kerri Rivera, then residing in Mexico, promoted a chlorine-dioxide ('MMS' / 'CD') protocol for autism, quoting her directly: 'Autism is treatable.' Separately quotes her, in the same interview: 'It's avoidable. And I believe it's curable.' Reports Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office dispatched investigators to a Rivera seminar at a suburban Chicago hotel after an earlier NBC 5 segment, served her with a subpoena, and that Rivera then signed an 'assurance of voluntary compliance'; the article states the agreement argues Rivera 'makes unsubstantiated health and medical claims' and 'lacks competent and reliable scientific evidence to support her claims that chlorine dioxide can treat autism'; as part of the agreement, Rivera agreed to no longer present at seminars or conferences, or sell products, in Illinois. Quotes Madigan: 'Because clearly, you have a situation where there are people, complete quacks, that are out there promoting a very dangerous chemical being given to young children.' Quotes Northwestern University chemistry professor Karl Scheidt: 'I would say it would be extremely dangerous to ingest this,' and, separately in the same quote, 'Much less a child.' Quotes University of Chicago's Karan Radwan stating autism has no established link to a virus, germ, or parasite: 'We don't have a single case of autism that is linked to a virus or a type of germ or parasite.'