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Your claim is that CPAP gave this person a _communicable_ chest infection, which was then cured by herbal medicine? How could that possibly happen unless your local distilled water supply was contaminated with tuberculosis bacteria?

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What part of "I make no claims for Chinese herbal cures" did you not understand?

It just underscores how batshit crazy people are and the low quality of some so-called "medical cures". Sometimes that includes "snake-oil salesmen", a category into which I now put CPAP vendors.

Improper cleaning maybe. People get Legionnaire's from shitty motel rooms with AC units that don't drain correctly, so it isn't that farfetched for a closed loop respirator full of moisture to harbor nasty pathogens all the same.

Yes, you can get infections from poorly maintained CPAPs (or respirators -- are those a scam, too?) but that's not going to spread to your whole family.

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