The War on Ivermectin

December 15th, 2023

Via: Pierre Kory, MD MPA:

2 Responses to “The War on Ivermectin”

  1. Loveandlight says:

    Ivermectin is Japan’s gift to the world that only Japan could have given, based as it is on microbiota unique to Japanese soil.

  2. Kevin says:

    Many don’t know the story, but it is absolutely incredible.

    https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/ivermectin-mectizan.html

    The story is so improbable it defies belief: a soil sample from Japan stops suffering in Africa. It starts when a scientist discovers a lowly bacterium near a golf course outside Tokyo. A team of scientists in the United States finds that the bacterium produces compounds that impede the activity of nematode worms. It is developed into a drug that wards off parasites in countless pets and farm animals, averting billions of dollars in losses worldwide. Extraordinarily, the drug also prevents or treats human parasitic diseases that would otherwise cause blindness and other severe symptoms in hundreds of millions of people in many of the poorest countries on Earth.

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