A US woman has won a court order for a hospital in Ohio to treat her husband, who is on a ventilator with COVID-19, with the antiparasitic medicine ivermectin, as demand surges for the unproven coronavirus treatment. The case is one of several nationwide where courts have sided with litigants …
Read More »Health experts warn against use of anti-parasitic horse medication to treat COVID-19
Health experts in the US are warning people against the use of Ivermectin, a drug that is often used to treat or prevent parasites in horses and other animals, as a home remedy for COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said recently of a growing trend interest in using …
Read More »‘You are not a horse:’ FDA warns against using animal drugs to treat COVID-19
The US FDA is warning against the use of animal medications for human COVID-19 infections after multiple people were hospitalized after taking ivermectin, a treatment intended for horses. “There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19,” the food and drug administration …
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