[NYTr] Increasing Use in Cuba of Scorpion Toxin to Fight Cancer
 
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:04:35 -0500 (CDT)


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Increasing Use in Cuba of Scorpion Toxin to Fight Cancer

Las Tunas, August 16 (acn) Scorpion toxin is becoming increasingly 
popular in the treatment of cancer and other serious illnesses in Cuba.

Nearly 5,000 Cubans and 3,000 foreigners have benefited from that 
substance to date.

At the opening ceremony of a new scorpion farm in Las Tunas province, 
some 670 kilometers east of Havana, Jose Antonio Fraga, director of the 
Bio-Pharmaceutical Laboratories (LABIOFAM), said there are now scorpion 
farms in every Cuban province.

"We have the technology to make them reproduce in captivity and to 
obtain the toxin," he said, adding that production must steadily 
increase to meet domestic demand and export demand once the product is 
patented.

Scorpion venom is a natural anti-inflammatory product and a painkiller 
that is harmless to the human body. It is highly anti-carcinogenic and 
effective in the treatment of tumors and ailments of the central 
nervous system, as well as those of the lungs, neck of the womb, 
prostate and pancreas.
 
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