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People Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Because They Can't Afford Human Ones

• https://motherboard.vice.com, Kaleigh Rogers

Here's everything you need to know about this bizarre trend:

People Write in Code

In the reviews for products such as Fin Mox and MoxiFish—both billed as fish doses of the antibiotic amoxicillin—consumers write in lightly veiled code how effective the medication was for their "fish:"

Basically every brand of fish antibiotic on the site has some form of these reviews, which make it blatantly obvious that people are taking, intend to take, or are pretending to take these animal medications themselves to treat human ailments.


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