The fake drugs were called Miagra...

In what must rank as one of the biggest illegal drug busts ever, the Malaysian Customs have seized 14 million Ringgit (£2,000,000) of a fake version of the world famous erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. The fake drugs were called Miagra and the importer claimed that they were merely vitamins and not serious medication.

The Health Minister for Malaysia Mr.Chua Soi Lek looked pretty pleased with himself when he announced that the health ministry’s special enforcement team along with customs officials had pounced on the container which was coming in from Singapore.  It had all in all over 1.4 million Miagra tablets which would be worth a small fortune on the black market in Malaysia.

The drugs that were seized last week have now been tested in a laboratory and it has been seen that they contain the active ingredient that is present in Viagra namely sildenafil citrate. The manufacturer of these fake Viagra tablets had tried to make the pills look at similar to the real thing as possible by a making them blue in colour and diamond shaped like the originals.

When people buy erectile dysfunction drugs in response to an e-mail spam message or from an illegal web site they very often do not get the real version of Viagra but some copy like Miagra. But in some cases, [if you are very lucky], what you might end up with is in fact similar to the real thing, but in the vast majority of cases you will be buying sub standard products that have not been made under the same stringent conditions that Pfizer implement when they make their erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

Another fake version of the Viagra erectile dysfunction drug that we come across a lot at Ukmedix news is one called Kumagra. It is of much lower quality and of dubious provenance and should be avoided along with any variation of the original Viagra drug.