I don’t think it will ever be said about me that I am averse to beating dead horses.
My GOVERNOR referred to Ivermectin as “horse medicine”. This whole thing is beyond ludicrous.
Ivermectin treats “elephantiasis”, which threatens nearly a billion people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantiasis
Here is the WHO website, where it is on the list of protocols: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lymphatic-filariasis
WHO now recommends the following MDA regimen in countries without onchocerciasis:
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ivermectin (200 mcg/kg) together with diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC) (6 mg/kg) and albendazole (400 mg) in certain settings
It also treats “river blindness”, which affects about 15 million people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis
OK, the original post is below, but I almost never repeat anything verbatim, and am always amending, appending and updating. The bits above are interesting.
“A number of serious infectious diseases are caused by parasites spread by insects. River blindness is caused by a tiny worm that can infect the cornea and cause blindness. Lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, is also caused by a worm and produces chronic swelling. Satoshi Omura cultured bacteria, which produce substances that inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. In 1978 he succeeded in culturing a strain from which William Campbell purified a substance, avermectin, which in a chemically modified form, ivermectin, proved effective against river blindness and elephantiasis.”