“The Indian Bar Association served a legal notice to chief scientist at the World Health Organization, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, for “influencing the public against” and “running a disinformation campaign against Ivermectin” — a popular anti-parasitic drug prescribed for Covid-19 patients.The IBA’s 51-page notice, sent on 25 May, calls Swaminathan’s statements “highly unconscionable, misleading and issued with ulterior purposes and deliberate intention to underplay the effectiveness of Ivermectin in treating the Covid-19 patients as well as its use as a prophylaxis and to dissuade people from using this drug by creating doubts in the minds of people around safety of Ivermectin”.
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