OK, ENOUGH ALREADY.
Here's the #Ivermectin saga, people.
1.) In the 1960s Japan's Satoshi Omura did chemistry work, trying to find a medicine to kill helminth worms in livestock.
2.) In the '70s he joined forces with Max Tischler at Wesleyan in USA.
3.) They brought…
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5.) The @Merck & Kitasato companies were thrilled to discover it cured a long list of livestock worm & parasitic diseases & a huge veterinary market opened.
6.) In 1981 Bangladeshi Mohamad Aziz showed that #Ivermectin could cure River Blindness, a terrible disease…
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…#Mectizan for free to @WHO to eliminate Africa's #1 cause of blindness.
8.) Ex-#POTUS #JimmyCarter joined forces, raising $ & logistics to get 2B dose to remote pts of Africa, curing blindness.
9.) In 2015 Omura and Campbell were awarded #NobelPrize in Chemistry.
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..shown to kill some other human parasites, including scabies & head lice.
12.) Wide use of #Ivermectin to treat lice ensued in Latin America — so much so, that people started treating it like aspirin, for everything. Despite no evidence it worked for other uses.
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…despite lab studies that indicated #Ivermectin blocked virus entry into cells, no clinical use showed benefit.
15.) The same was seen with #dengue #YellowFever #Chikungunya & other insect-carried viruses: seemed to work in vitro, not in vivo.
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16.) On Aug 27, 2021 @US_FDA warned large doses of #Ivermectin cause “nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, facial or limb swelling, neurologic adverse events, sudden drop in blood pressure, severe skin rash potentially requiring hospitalization & liver injury.”
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18.) A 2021 W Africa survey found the same neurological problems with #Ivermectin overuse or incorrect use, as well as, "Serious post-ivermectin encephalopathies," — brain injuries. https://t.co/pPxhALaS7i
19.) A hallmark of the drug: it can get into the brain.
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— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 6, 2021

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… said NO, stop it. This is not an appropriate anti-#COVID19 drug. Period. https://t.co/7Ltu48qChd
It is inconceivable that a for-profit company would said, "don't buy this" unless it was 100% certain #Ivermectin didn't work for COVID & might be risky.
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— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 6, 2021

Hi! here is your unroll: OK, ENOUGH ALREADY. Here's the #Ivermectin saga, people. 1.) In the… https://t.co/ibow4CY112 Enjoy 🙂 🤖

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