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http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/09/27/obituarios/1096296514.htmlGoogle translation in English:
Fernando Chacón Mejías,
creator of Bio-Bac
EUROPE PRESS
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MADRID .- The microbiologist, pharmacist and veterinarian Fernando Chacón Mejías, creator of Bio-Bac , died at the age of 87 , according to the magazine 'Discovery-DSalud', a publication that champions the cause of the supporters of this product.
Born in Córdoba in 1917, Fernando Chacón dedicated his life to studying the pathogenic mechanisms of proteins and in 1974 claimed to have discovered the aetiology and treatment of both cancer and chronic degenerative diseases.
Chacón reflected his theories in the book "Pribios or living enzymes" (1987), in which he describes the mechanism by which pathogens are formed that favor the development of various pathologies, such as cancer.
All this had its practical application in Bio-Bac, whose production was carried out by his son Rafael Chacón, who claims to have tested it successfully in different diseases such as cancer, AIDS or hepatitis C. This last point has never been supported by the Spanish health authorities.
Despite this, this drug was distributed through a fraudulent network that was dismantled in 2002 by the Civil Guard. This action, however, was appealed by those affected and various consumers who claimed to benefit from the supposed therapeutic effects of the product.
The drug, illegal in Spain, was withdrawn from the market by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs.
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Who does not want to think is a fanatic; who cannot think is an idiot; who does not dare to think is a coward (Francis Bacon)
SPAIN
The surreal return of Bio Bac
Four years after its withdrawal and with its manufacturer still charged, it returns to the market as a legalized 'food supplement' in some EU countries
RAFAEL J. ALVAREZ
MADRID. - Fifty-four months, 23 detainees, 60,000 signatures, nine judges and two ministers later, Bio Bac returns. That mountain of vials kidnapped in 2002 by civil guards in a villa in Madrid is about to leave the dungeon of unanswered questions. "Next week, when we have the new labels, we will be on the streets as Bio Bac."
It is Rafael Chacón [fils de Fernando Chacón], manufacturer of the returned protagonist of this story. Starting with the end, the owner of a product that circulated word of mouth for 30 years as a cancer healer and for 10 years was paid for by Social Security informed the Community of Madrid on February 9 that it is returning to the Spanish market with Bio Bac as "food supplement" and today he will meet with the Ministry of Health to talk about it.
“If the product is registered as a food supplement and does not advertise therapeutic properties or is presented as a medicine, fine. If so, and the manufacturers do not repeat their old attempts to legalize it for medical use, it will be legal, "says the Ministry of Health.
On February 5, Chacón received final authorization from the Belgian Ministry of Health to sell what his father invented half a century ago. “After a thorough verification of this food supplement, it is given the number: Prebacter, NUT 1107/1. It can circulate freely in Belgium," says the Belgian Food Safety Service.
Prebacter, Enzi-Bio, Renoven and Bio Bac is the same with different names, surnames with which it has circulated with provisional permits in Portugal, Slovakia, Belgium and even Spain, where patients have drunk it -like Renoven- through a line 902.
The Belgian permission is the relief of Chacón. «Belgium belongs to the EU, and if a product is valid in the EU, it is valid here. Even so, we have communicated everything to Spain.” But if Bio Bac returns as such, it will be with surrealism: its manufacturer is still charged. Will a legal product have its owner accused of manufacturing something illegal?
The explanation is the summary opened 54 months ago after the Brujo operation. On October 24, 2002, a battalion of agents broke into Chacón's house [of the father or of the son ?, perhaps they ware livind together] and immobilized boxes of Bio Bac. At the same time, 23 people, including 13 doctors, were arrested in half of Spain for a "crime against public health." The next day, all but Chacón were released. Then a process began that has not left the Court of El Escorial, a place through which nine judges have already passed, looking askance at the Bio Bac case.
The then Minister of Health, Ana Pastor, withheld the product, giving her reasons: it is manufactured in poor conditions, there are no proven clinical trials, curative effects are advertised and it is recommended as an alternative to medical treatments. Chacón threw his own: there are tests carried out abroad, the drug was never discussed and the doctors never prescribed it as a substitute.
A year after the night of bottles, Health described Bio Bac as "harmless", but maintained its immobilization. Chacón and some doctors spoke of "black hands" in the Ministry and said that the pharmaceutical industry wanted to buy the product twice "in exchange for dizzying figures."
Meanwhile, thousands of Bio Bac users fretted. “We didn't care about the name: medicine, food supplement, dietary... We only knew that it helped us with the disease. Its legalization is the end of a nightmare. To the aggression of cancer has been added the aggression of a health system that has ignored the situation of thousands of citizens. Carmen Morán, vice president of the Bio Bac Consumers Association, speaks, four years of struggle to return to the same place.
In 2003, the PSOE met a lot with Morán. The current Secretary of State for Immigration, Consuelo Rumí, spoke of the socialist health system carrying out clinical trials. And the PSOE presented a non-law proposal to legalize Bio Bac as a food supplement.
On the other side of the game, Esperanza Aguirre came to put her name in a collection of signatures for the legalization of Bio Bac and promised solutions for when she presided over the Community of Madrid.
But nothing changed. In April 2004, the Provincial Court based itself on the "harmlessness" alleged by Health and the "placebo effect" on users to urge the Ministry to "address the health problems that the withdrawal of Bio Bac has caused to the group of consumers of the same". Within a month, consumers submitted to Congress a list of 311 doctors who had legally prescribed Bio Bac.
The product changed its name outside of Spain, and Chacón tried to register it in some autonomous communities as a supplement “for special medical use”. Madrid and Aragón said no because no Administration wants to put the words Bio Bac and doctor together.
Now the vial will return to those who believe in it as an official snack and quiet remedy.
But there the story gets complicated because among the defendants was also the follower of Hamer, the doctor Fermin Mariano Marcos, who died before the end of the trial.
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Article in "The World", 2003
On January 10, "El Mundo" published the conclusions of the Medicines Agency (AEM) regarding the efficacy of Bio Bac, the food supplement used by Fermín Moriano to treat cancer in his patients.
"...it is emphasized that Bio-Bac has been illegally sold under two pharmaceutical forms: one oral, manufactured by a veterinary laboratory without authorization to produce this substance, and another injectable, whose manufacturing origin is unknown."
THE COMPOSITION OF THE MEDICATION CHANGES
The Health report concludes that Bio-Bac lacks efficacy The Medicines Agency detects fungi and viruses in some of the injectable samples
SERVIMEDIA MADRID .-
The report commissioned by the Ministry of Health concludes that Bio-Bac lacks therapeutic efficacy, is not a safe or effective product , its composition varies from one container to another (which invalidates any attempt to carry out regulated clinical trials) and also manufactures outside the Medicines Law .
These are the main objections that are included in the report made by the Medicines Agency (AEM) on the illegal drug Bio-Bac, after studying the materials and documents seized by the Civil Guard.
In a statement, Health indicates that the judge instructing the case, once the summary secrecy has been lifted, has authorized the Ministry to disseminate the content of the report prepared by the agency.
It underlines that Bio-Bac has been illegally sold under two pharmaceutical forms: one oral, manufactured by a veterinary laboratory without authorization to produce this substance, and another injectable, whose manufacturing origin is unknown.
At the National Microbiology Center they have had difficulties in analyzing the real and exact composition of the product, since the strains contained in the analyzed samples are different . For this reason, it is not possible to speak of a homogeneous production, since at least four different groups of strains have been detected in the same batch.
Furthermore, according to currently available information, the methods used by the manufacturer to inactivate the bacilli also vary from batch to batch, making it impossible to adequately characterize the product from a pharmacological point of view.
For the Spanish Medicines Agency, it is precisely these differences, in the composition of the batches analyzed and in the methods to inactivate the bacilli, that invalidate any attempt to demonstrate their therapeutic efficacy through clinical trials.
Contamination The detailed study of the documentation seized has revealed that substances of unknown origin are used in the production process, such as pancreatic peptone and peptic peptone for product fermentation.
In the case of injectable samples, the analysis has confirmed the presence of contamination by "mucor cirillenoídes" fungi and gram-positive and gram-negative bacilli in some of the packages of the analyzed batches.
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Article "The Country", 1995
Below we reproduce the full content of an article written by the newspaper El País on September 13, 1995 regarding the NMG and Dr. Fermín Moriano.
"I feel cheated by these doctors who act with incredible cruelty and negligence. On top of that, when I showed them an X-ray so they could see the damage their bone therapy had done to me, they told me it was because I hadn't valued myself" .
"I was furious with pain, I felt very tired, I could barely breathe and I was paralyzed, but they told me to hold on, that the more it hurt, the better, because it was a sign that I was healing." Concepción C., 42, sick with breast cancer, experienced a real ordeal during the three months she was treated by Fermín Moriano Marcos, a registered doctor in Malaga and enrolled in Hamer's theses. The videos of the programs made in La 2 to the German doctor are serving to recruit patients, without TVE making a statement on the matter yet.
In Malaga, the followers of Hamer, a German doctor disqualified from practicing his profession in Germany and persecuted by the Austrian justice, continue to use the video of the two programs broadcast, without any contrast, by La 2 as propaganda for the method. Spanish Television has not yet made a decision in this regard. Those responsible only said yesterday that "there is an ongoing investigation" and that they had "nothing to say". He kept his illness under control. At the end of March she "could barely walk and couldn't stand the pain", so she decided to abandon Hamer's therapy and return to traditional medicine.
"I feel cheated by these doctors who act with incredible cruelty and negligence. On top of that, when I showed them an X-ray so they could see the damage their bone therapy had done to me, they told me it was because I hadn't valued myself" Conch says. According to the theories of the German doctor, the anguish that is triggered when a tumor is diagnosed in turn causes other cancers: fear of death causes lung cancer, fear that children will be left unprotected, liver cancer, and personal devaluation. , of bones. "When they tell you that you have this disease, those three feelings always appear, with which they are never wrong, they never lose," He explains.
redeeming pain
The Hamerians oppose treatment with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and even painkillers, because - they say - they block the brain, which is responsible for ordering the retraction of cancer cells. That is why María José H. (18 years old) and María del Carmen Expósito (40) did not want morphine or conventional medicine therapy, because they hoped that the pain would save them. But the suffering was of no use to them. They both died a few months ago.
The case of María José was the bloodiest. Evicted by traditional medicine, she put herself in the hands of Moriano so that he would cure her of the ovarian cancer that she suffered from. Given the progress of the disease, complicated by an intestinal obstruction, she was admitted to the Clinical Hospital of Malaga. There, a German therapist named Illsen and her own parents permanently blocked palliative treatment with analgesics in the belief that the pain would restore her health. A situation that generated strong conflicts with the medical team that treated the young woman and that forced an almost daily negotiation with her family when it came to supplying her with some painkiller. But the pain was useless. She passed away less than a year ago. The death of María José was attributed by her parents and the Hamerians to oncologists,
María del Carmen Expósito also knew the Hamer method first hand. The breast cancer that she suffered from her had her bedridden, but nevertheless Moriano made a very specific recommendation to her husband, José Dávila: that she make more love to her with the patient. Oliva Dávila Expósito, her daughter, relates that María del Carmen's suffering was not only physical. "During a home visit that Moriano made to my mother, he told her that all he was afraid of was, that he was not sick, that he had to lose that fear and take off the oxygen mask once and for all, without which he practically could not breathe. . That was psychological torture for her. It felt like a blindfold had been put on her." Moriano prescribed royal jelly and some small bottles that were worth about 6,000 pesetas and that barely lasted a week. Also, made him stop chemotherapy. He died in May.
The Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has filed a lawsuit. against Hamer for illegal exercise of the profession, after having attended in Malaga to the Austrian girl Olivia Pilhar, sick with kidney cancer. But the SAS is not aware that Moriano has a clinic in the capital where Hamer periodically gives lectures, nor that many evicted people pay between 18,000 and 24,000 pesetas for these alternative doctors to tell them that they have up to an 80% chance of survival.
Criticism of The 2
Dr. Emilio Alba, a member of the Oncology team at the Clinical Hospital of Malaga, is emphatic when giving his opinion on Hamerian medicine: "By stating that pain is synonymous with healing, many people are made to suffer uselessly because they are induced to interrupt traditional treatments that increase the chances of life or that relieve pain. But La 2 has contributed to this situation with the program in which it spread Hamer's theses, an irresponsibility if one takes into account that people believe a lot what is said on television". "All these theories are false", insists Alba, "the only thing doctors of this current do is traffic with the last hope".
Several patients of Moriano or their relatives have confirmed that the video of the program Questions and answersde La 2 -in which Hamer disseminates his theses without contrasting- is distributed in the conferences that the former German doctor gives twice a year in Malaga and which are usually attended by a hundred people.
The Medical Association of Malaga plans to analyze the situation of Moriano - who is registered and cannot be accused of intrusion - in the ethical commission that must meet at the end of this month.
Among the followers of Hamerian therapy in Malaga is a doctor named Villarubia Orellana, who has made home visits with Moriano, and a German therapist named Ilsen, who has a gym next to Moriano's office. In recent months, this team has expanded its field of work to asthma and autism, and uses, in addition to the La 2 program, word of mouth to gain followers.
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