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Can Eating Limes and Drinking Clorox Water Prevent You from Catching
COVID-19?

Sandra Lemaire

   WASHINGTON/PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI - As the coronavirus continues to
   spread in Haiti, some people are embracing traditional remedies as a
   way to prevent or cure the deadly virus. VOA talked to Haitians at an
   open-air market about what they believe can prevent them from being
   infected or perhaps even heal them.

   "They say there's no cure for it, but we can eat limes and drink water
   with Clorox to stay alive," a female street merchant told VOA.

   "I hear people say you should eat limes and eat certain leaves to stay
   healthy," a male street merchant said.

   Haiti currently has 18 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with more than 400
   people quarantined while they await test results, the public health
   ministry announced Friday.

   VOA Creole asked Pierre Hugues Saint-Jean, president of the national
   Association of Pharmacists, if there's any validity to the traditional
   remedies being touted on the streets.

   "There actually has been a debate about the virtues of certain plants.
   Some people say ginger, others say limes, some people are talking about
   aloe," Saint-Jean said. "Just because it's a plant doesn't mean it has
   no scientific validity. But you have to study the plant, isolate the
   active substances contained in the plant and then conduct (scientific)
   studies."

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