FDA Blast Another Corky Smear Campaign Against Ivermectin!

Politifact tried to say that the actual statement is a little bit fake.

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It is true that ivermectin was approved by the Food and Drug Administration that year — but not to treat the coronavirus. The drug was approved for strongyloidiasis, a disease caused by a roundworm, and onchocerciasis, or river blindness, which is caused by a parasitic worm.

The drug was approved for humans under the brand name Stromectol, National Geographic reported, and since then it’s been recognized as a safe treatment for several tropical diseases caused by parasites. In 2015, two scientists even won a Nobel Prize for their discovery of ivermectin and its use to treat diseases caused by parasites.

But unlike, say, river blindness, COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus, not by parasites. And as PolitiFact recently reported in a story exploring ivermectin, there’s no conclusive evidence that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.

Sharing lies is what makes me angry! If you give me one year, I will share all the twists and turns that the MSM takes to transform the truth into a lie!

WIV Channel 4 News reported:

After a recent resurgence in several states, health officials are warning residents to be aware of a dangerous of an unauthorized “treatment” for COVID-19 — often being taken with dangerous consequences.

It’s called ivermectin and it’s used to treat and prevent parasites in animals, the Food and Drug Administration explains. The tablets are not FDA approved for treatment of COVID-19 in humans and isn’t even an anti-viral drug — meaning it has no impact on the coronavirus. And because the large-concentration tablets are intended for large animals, these can be treacherous for humans.

In addition to not being authorized for treatment, there’s no evidence ivermectin treats COVID-19.

“There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin. That is wrong.”

FDA
The FDA and several state officials say they’ve seen an uptick in calamitous use of the drugs, particularly tablets used to treat parasitic worms in horses. While ivermectin is approved for humans to treat certain skin conditions (rosacea) and certain external parasites like head lice, the FDA warns this ivermectin is different than the one used in animals.

On Friday, the Mississippi Department of Health was forced to send out a warning to residents about the dangers of the drug after several poisonings.

The Mississippi Poison Control Center said at least 70% of recent ivermectin-related calls are tied to people taking livestock or animal formulations they bought a livestock supply stores or through online markets.

Eighty-five percent of callers had mild symptoms — these include rash, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain — but one person needed evaluation because of how much they’d taken.

More severe dangers of ivermectin ingestion include neurologic disorders, seizures, coma and death.

Use of ivermectin should only be taken if prescribed by a doctor for an FDA-approved use. Regardless of the usage and prescription, the FDA warns ivermectin overdose is still possible. Possible interaction with other medications is also a possibility.

There’s a 70% surge in Ivermectin poison Center calls sounds, and that’s a lot!

NPR reported a 145% surge. It’s just too much!

According to the National Poison Data System (NPDS), which collects information from the nation’s 55 poison control centers, there was a 245% jump in reported exposure cases from July to August — from 133 to 459.

Out of 333 million people, there were 459 calls to poison centers, 0, 00000137%.

85% of the people called had mild symptoms like a rash.

We will continue sharing the truth about this!

Ivermectin was on the list of the best drugs of the WHO.

INCHEM.org reported:

They lay it out in black and white and even a non-medical person like me can understand it.

Now let’s go down to Section 7.2 of their report which is about Toxicity in Humans:

I’m going to bold the key part:

  7.2 Toxicity
       7.2.1 Human data
             7.2.1.1 Adults
                     Amounts approaching the therapeutic doses in 
                     animals (100 to 200 ðg/kg bodyweight) are not 
                     hazardous to humans.  Ingestions of large 
                     quantities (10 to 100 times the animal 
                     therapeutic dosage) may produce symptoms 
                     resembling those observed in animal toxicology 
                     studies at high toxic levels.
                     
                     An adult female accidentally self-injected a 
                     small quantity (approximately 200 ðg/kg) 
                     subcutaneously.  Twelve hours later she 
                     experienced colicky pain with nausea but 
                     recovered within 12 hours (MSD, 1988).
                     
                     Clinical studies of oral ivermectin given in 
                     doses from 2 to 200 ðg/kg (maximum 12 mg) have 
                     shown a pattern of adverse experiences that 
                     included only one serious event (transient 
                     stupor).  The remaining adverse experiences were 
                     considered not serious and were chiefly of the 
                     type expected based on the characteristics of 
                     the underlying disease and the responses seen 
                     after treatment with other microfilaricidal 
                     drugs, except for reports of "depression" (not 
                     psychiatrically tested) in four patients in open 
                     studies (MSD, 1988).
             7.2.1.2 Children
                     A 16-month-old boy weighing 15 kg ingested 
                     approximately 100 to 130 mg of ivermectin (as an 
                     injectable solution).  Ten hours post-ingestion 
                     he had mydriasis in one pupil, with frequent 
                     vomiting, pallor, 35°C temperature, tachycardia, 
                     somnolence and variable blood pressure.  He 
                     developed urticaria the following day, and had 
                     recovered after three days (MSD, 1988).