Gecko Can Cure AIDS?

Hunt geckos are now rampant in Makassar, South Sulawesi. This reptile animals are sought after and sold for between Rp2 .5 to 5 million per head with a weight of three ounces because the animals used as medicinal herbs that can cure AIDS.

In fact, the Chief of the Bureau of Bina drug and HIV / AIDS in South Sulawesi, Dr. Dwi Djoko Purnomo dr in Makassar, on Tuesday, until now there has been no research conducted drug makers experts in Singapore which states geckos can cure AIDS.

Since the impressions on the private television screen that the gecko is one animal that very miracle cure for aids, many people in this region vying to catch because it tempted by the price offered by buyers are mostly descendants of people who lived in the streets of South Veterans, Makassar.

"I was shocked kok citizens spontaneously respond to this to make the animal as a promising livelihood benefits, while the inventor of the AIDS drug raw material itself gecko still questionable what yes or merely an issue," said Djoko.

Because, if the geckos will actually be a magic medicine to cure people with the deadly disease of the human soul is, it will be widely publicized for the discoverer to the international world.

"Name the inventor of medicine that uses gecko as a drug that could cure AIDS is so far still 'run' and not clear and should be wary not to hurt people because ultimately the main livelihood left," he added.

But, he added, if it is true that the inventor of the drug in Singapore which states geckos are able to cure AIDS disease which is proven through research and recognized the world, it should be thumbs up for this during drug experts in the U.S. and Australia have not been able to produce the drug for this disease.

"Hopefully this was the inventor of the drug so that the public might have found relief for drug aids cure disease," he hoped as he stated, since the aids cases sticking to the present there is no antidote, so thank the world community if the hunted geckos Makassar residents would be material standard drug.

Sangnging, housewife living in the street Lion, Makassar, admitted had been visited by one of his buyers if he had the animals crawling on his home at a price of Rp2, 5 million to the weight of three ounces.

"I told the buyer that the house but there is a catch geckos father who want to buy," he said during a confirmation that he had approached one potential buyer, but after seeing the animals crawling on the wall and the estimated weight of less than three ounces buyer directly out the attack.

In the meantime, Daeng Tata, residents expressed Tonro Andi way that the buyer wants to be bought geckos do not like the tail missing defects or peeling skin but must be intact.

"If it was intact but weighed less than three ounces will not be bought so vain that we happened to catch geckos out of hiding from the plavon to tempok then caught it with difficulty," he said with disappointment as his catch to show visible disabilities and does not meet the desired weight of the buyer.

Source : Kompas Health