heard this on taxpayer-funded ABC Australia’s radio news bulletins this morning, but can’t find it on their website:
1 Sept: news.com.au (Murdoch): Ivermectin dangers outlined after man hospitalised
People are taking the controversial drug Ivermectin to try to cure Covid-19. Here’s what happened when one Sydney man tried it.
by Samantha Maiden
Doctors have warned of the dangers of quack cures for Covid-19 after a Sydney man was rushed to hospital after self-administering a drug used to deworm cows called Ivermectin.
Conservatives including ex Liberal MP Craig Kelly have been pushing the drug in the US and Australia as an alternative treatment for Covid-19 for months.
But that’s led to a spike in poisonings overseas and now it seems Australia with patients self dosing the vet medicine before presenting with explosive diarrhoea and vomiting.
Westmead Hospital toxicologist Associate Professor Naren Gunja has revealed a Covid-positive person is recovering at home after presenting to emergency after taking Covid “cures” they ordered online.
“Thankfully they didn’t develop severe toxicity but it didn’t help their Covid either,” Associate Professor Gunja said...
US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has also begged Americans not to take the drug for Covid.
“Don’t do it,” he said. “There is no evidence whatsoever that works.”...
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/health/ivermectin-dangers-outlined-after-man-hospitalised/news-story/480a83d2ed4250ae458253b74f51a6f6
ABC yesterday (Australia time) with another beat-up:
1 Sept: ABC Australia: Northern Territory clinic warns against sourcing or using ivermectin to treat COVID-19
ABC Radio Darwin / By Conor Byrne, Jolene Laverty, and Jack Hislop
PHOTO CAPTION: Australian Army’s Major Amanda Parry shows an agricultural student from the Federated States of Micronesia how to inject a pig with ivermectin
A “handful” of people have caused concern at a Northern Territory health clinic after asking about an unproven treatment normally used to treat parasites in humans and animals, instead of vaccines, to treat COVID-19...
“It seems to be a very small issue,” Dr Webster said.
“Fewer than 10 people have been asking about it at this stage.
“We haven’t been asked across our service to prescribe it. People have enquired about it...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-01/danila-dilba-clinic-warns-against-ivermectin-to-treat-covid-19/100424566
re the Sydney man hospitalised, note it states the man took Covid “cures” (plural). that was also mentioned on ABC radio, so it wasn’t only Ivermectin.
fixed it