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<blockquote data-quote="whatbogsends" data-source="post: 76256795" data-attributes="member: 11978"><p>From 2011, well before Ivermectin became political:</p><p></p><p><em>Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world. Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites in commercial livestock and companion animals. It was quickly discovered to be ideal in combating two of the world’s most devastating and disfiguring diseases which have plagued the world’s poor throughout the tropics for centuries. It is now being used free-of-charge as the sole tool in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally. It has also been used to successfully overcome several other human diseases and new uses for it are continually being found. <strong>This paper looks in depth at the events surrounding ivermectin’s passage from being a huge success in Animal Health into its widespread use in humans, a development which has led many to describe it as a “wonder” drug.</strong></em></p><p></p><p><em>There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people. Several extensive reports, including reviews authored by us, have been published detailing the events behind the discovery, development and commercialization of the avermectins and ivermectin (22,23-dihydroavermectin B), as well as the donation of ivermectin and its use in combating Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#r01" target="_blank">1</a>–<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#r06" target="_blank">6</a>) However, none have concentrated in detail on the interacting sequence of events involved in the passage of the drug into human use.</em></p><p><em>...</em></p><p><em>Ivermectin proved to be even more of a ‘Wonder drug’ in human health, improving the nutrition, general health and wellbeing of billions of people worldwide ever since it was first used to treat Onchocerciasis in humans in 1988. It proved ideal in many ways, being highly effective and broad-spectrum, safe, well tolerated and could be easily administered (a single, annual oral dose). It is used to treat a variety of internal nematode infections, including Onchocerciasis, Strongyloidiasis, Ascariasis, cutaneous larva migrans, filariases, Gnathostomiasis and Trichuriasis, as well as for oral treatment of ectoparasitic infections, such as Pediculosis (lice infestation) and scabies (mite infestation).<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#r14" target="_blank">14</a>) Ivermectin is the essential mainstay of two global disease elimination campaigns that should soon rid the world of two of its most disfiguring and devastating diseases, Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic filariasis, which blight the lives of billions of the poor and disadvantaged throughout the tropics.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/" target="_blank">Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective (nih.gov)</a></p><p></p><p>Keep calling it "horse dewormer" and then turn around and exclaim "follow the science". Those who use that phrase to describe ivermectin are outing themselves as politically-driven, not science-driven.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whatbogsends, post: 76256795, member: 11978"] From 2011, well before Ivermectin became political: [I]Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world. Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites in commercial livestock and companion animals. It was quickly discovered to be ideal in combating two of the world’s most devastating and disfiguring diseases which have plagued the world’s poor throughout the tropics for centuries. It is now being used free-of-charge as the sole tool in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally. It has also been used to successfully overcome several other human diseases and new uses for it are continually being found. [B]This paper looks in depth at the events surrounding ivermectin’s passage from being a huge success in Animal Health into its widespread use in humans, a development which has led many to describe it as a “wonder” drug.[/B][/I] [I]There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people. Several extensive reports, including reviews authored by us, have been published detailing the events behind the discovery, development and commercialization of the avermectins and ivermectin (22,23-dihydroavermectin B), as well as the donation of ivermectin and its use in combating Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.[URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#r01']1[/URL]–[URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#r06']6[/URL]) However, none have concentrated in detail on the interacting sequence of events involved in the passage of the drug into human use. ... Ivermectin proved to be even more of a ‘Wonder drug’ in human health, improving the nutrition, general health and wellbeing of billions of people worldwide ever since it was first used to treat Onchocerciasis in humans in 1988. It proved ideal in many ways, being highly effective and broad-spectrum, safe, well tolerated and could be easily administered (a single, annual oral dose). It is used to treat a variety of internal nematode infections, including Onchocerciasis, Strongyloidiasis, Ascariasis, cutaneous larva migrans, filariases, Gnathostomiasis and Trichuriasis, as well as for oral treatment of ectoparasitic infections, such as Pediculosis (lice infestation) and scabies (mite infestation).[URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#r14']14[/URL]) Ivermectin is the essential mainstay of two global disease elimination campaigns that should soon rid the world of two of its most disfiguring and devastating diseases, Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic filariasis, which blight the lives of billions of the poor and disadvantaged throughout the tropics.[/I] [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/']Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective (nih.gov)[/URL] Keep calling it "horse dewormer" and then turn around and exclaim "follow the science". Those who use that phrase to describe ivermectin are outing themselves as politically-driven, not science-driven. [/QUOTE]
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