DDC Danger

Some persons have obtained "underground" dideoxycytidine, or DDC (not to be confused with DTC, Imuthiol, an entirely different treatment). In scientific tests dideoxycytidine has caused severe side effects which may be irreversible-- especially neuropathy and pain in the feet. Scientists are still looking for a way to use DDC, but clearly it is much too dangerous to be taken without expert supervision.

Information on the toxicity of DDC has long circulated in the treatment underground. It appeared in print in the Wall
Street Journal, September 18, 1987, page 36.