It really is. Truly a miracle drug and I can't sit back and let the MAGAs and covidiots tar its name, with their ineffective off label use.
Found in woodland soil near a Japanese golf course, it has saved perhaps hundreds of millions or even billions of people from African riverblindness, Strongyloidiasis, filiriasis and many other parasitic diseases. I'm not the only one who thinks so, it won the 2015 Noble in medicine for its discoverers.
Its really hard to overstate its economic or medical impact, check out this article: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/... A large part of the human impact is because it was made available free.
Most of the time when we find a new antibiotic we find many variants, in a variety of places. Not ivermectin. One place, one time and never again. How many miracles have we missed? If I was a philantrophic billionaire, I would definitely look into a giant soil survey. Let the Mudbath begin!
When it first came out, in 1975, as a heart worm drug it saved millions of beloved pets. Maybe one of yours if you're using it prophylacticly. If not please do so.
Raccoons can carry Baylisascaris, an intestinal roundworm, which can infect humans and a variety of other animals.
If its eggs are ingested larvae hatch out of the eggs and may move into various organs of the body causing serious disease.
Symptoms of infection in people depend on how many eggs are ingested and where in the body the larvae migrate, such as the liver, brain, eye, or spinal cord.
Many parasitic worms will rarely make their way into the brain and cause problems. Its most common, even occasional with tapeworm. And, the answer my friend is a gun. If that don't work, try moar gun. Sorry, I'm an American. Can't help it. Try ivermectin.
Symptoms may include tiredness, lack of coordination, loss of muscle control, blindness, and coma. They usually usually take about a week to develop. Nice, huh?
I could be in a coma somewhere right now, dribbling my chin.
The fuckers tore up my astronomical observatory and shat all over. I forgot the danger till after cleaning it. Then, I turned to Jeebus! No, ivermectin prophylaxis. And I was very glad to have it.
Now, some might be surprised to read it, but parasites aren't all bad. We evolved living with them. Those who were never exposed are more likely to be asthmatic or even get some more serious inflammatory disease. Recent treatment for the latter include worm eggs from a pig infesting species that can't complete its life cycle in people.
The Sick Rose
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy
Good poem but if the rose had taken ivermectin instead of poncing its genitalia, it would have had a better ending. Just sayin' Ivermectin!
Its also useful in the culinary arts, you can make a delicious apple tart with the horse paste, it goes well with the peegaritas and Pisscoe sours beloved by covidiots./s
Anyway a valuable and much under appreciated drug even if its useless against the Crowned Mexican beer virus.