The Malaysian
Insider
21 December 2015
By NURADILLA
NOORAZAM
A plant expert has
dismissed recent social media claims that a popular house plant causes cancer
as lacking scientific proof.
Dean of the
Faculty of Agriculture at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Prof Ghizan Saleh
said that no scientific research had been carried out to establish a connection
between the plant and cancer. […]
A social media
posting went viral recently, in which it was claimed that a doctor was making a
house-call on a cancer patient, whose family had also been diagnosed with
cancer. According to the post, the doctor noticed the Zanzibar Gem house plant
growing around the patient’s home, so he took some samples for testing. The
post claimed he found the plant to be acutely carcinogenic.
In a similar post,
the plant was also blamed for the deaths due to leukaemia of two botanists from
University Sains Malaysia (USM). […]
