General Abdul Atti claims the Egyptian Military has found the cure for HIV. (YouTube)

According to army doctor Major General Ibrahim Abdul Atti, 22 years of medical research on HIV and hepatitis C have resulted in highly effective methods that had an 100% success rate for curing AIDs in a medical study.

"You will never find another patient suffering from the Hepatitis C virus after today, God willing," said General Abdul Atti in a military press conference, a recording of which can be found on YouTube.

Apparently, the so-called cure has been dubbed "Complete Cure," or CC, which is executed by a medical machine called C-Fast that was adapted from a device for detecting bombs.

The device, which looks like a TV antenna pasted onto a clothes iron, is purported by the Egyptian military to be able to remotely detect hepatitis C and HIV with electromagnetic waves without needing blood samples. If that's not already mind-blowing, hear this: the C-Fast machine is designed not only to diagnose HIV and hepatitis C, but also to remotely cure the two infectious scourges.

Despite their confident claims, the Egyptian military's C-Fast device is raising eyebrows in the scientific community, given that the Egyptian military conducts its medical research in secret without any collaboration with respected peer-reviewed journals.

BBC reports Emma Thomson, a specialist in infectious diseases from the University of Glasgow, to have said: "I can find no evidence to support the claims that this device detects hepatitis C or any other viruses as mentioned in the patent, nor any clear theoretical rationale for how it would work."

Her worries are echoed by many others within the global scientific community - although the C-Fast technology had gained some tentative recognition from respected scientists for diagnosing hepatitis last year.

The current President of Egypt, Adly Mansour, ordered the technology to be reviewed by scientific committees and expert panels to make sure the Egyptian military's claims are correct.

Mansour's scientific advisor is skeptical, considering the cure to be "an insult to Egypt both internally and abroad," and could possibly "harm the state image" or "have negative effects on scientific research."

According to the World Health Organization, 20 percent of Egyptians test positive for Hepatitis C, while H.I.V. rates are less than one percent.

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