News Forum - ATK solution can cause blindness, Thailand’s fact checking centre confirms

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ATK testing solution should NOT be used as eyedrops. That’s the takeaway from a warning Thai netizens are passing around, claiming that a harmful chemical compound called sodium azide found in ATK test kits could make people’s eyes go blind. The Anti-Fake News Centre of Thailand, together with the Department of Medical Science, has investigated the claim and confirmed it to be accurate. The Department of Medical Science has shared that sodium azide is in fact included in tubes of lysis buffer, which is used to break open cells to analyze them for traces of Covid-19 RNA. But if used […]

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26 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

ATK testing solution should NOT be used as eyedrops

Sounds like a stunt in Jackass.