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A CDC physician claims that a drug error, not chelation therapy, killed a 5-year old boy

A CDC physician claims that a drug error, not chelation therapy, killed a 5-year old boy. This case is well-documented. Here’s what the CDC physician had to say:

“It’s a case of look-alike/sound-alike medications,” she said yesterday. “The child was given Disodium EDTA instead of Calcium Disodium EDTA. The generic names are Versinate and Endrate. They sound alike. They’re clear and colorless and odorless. They were mixed up.”

Both types of EDTA are synthetic amino acids that latch onto heavy metals in the bloodstream.

Dr. Brown said she obtained the child’s autopsy report on behalf of the CDC after reading an article about the death in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She said it didn’t take long to figure out what had happened.

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