Coronavirus breakthrough as scientists discover a drug used to treat HEAD LICE can kill COVID-19 cells

Daily Mail ^ | 4/03/20

[Libloather]

An anti-parasitic head lice drug available around the world has been found to kill COVID-19 in the lab within 48 hours.

A Monash University-led study has shown a single dose of the drug Ivermectin could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture.

'We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA (effectively removed all genetic material of the virus) by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it,' Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute's Dr Kylie Wagstaff said on Friday.

While it's not known how Ivermectin works on the virus, the drug likely stops the virus dampening the host cells' ability to clear it.

The next step is for scientists to determine the correct human dosage, to make sure the level used in vitro is safe for humans.

**SNIP**

Ivermectin is an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug also shown to be effective in vitro against viruses including HIV, dengue and influenza.

[Augie]

It is found in just about all horse, dog and pig wormers but can and will kill collies. land a few other shepard breeds.

Interesting, and valuable, that you mention this.

I was having this same general conversation with the manager at the local farmers co-op last Saturday. I told him that I'd seen several articles that stated potential for Ivermec as a covid19 remedy. He relayed the tale of a local farmer who was worming cattle. A couple of the farmer's dogs lapped up some of the spilled wormer med. The border collie died the next day. The other dog, not sure of breed, but not a collie, was unaffected.