How would an anti-parasitic drug kill a virus?
We all just need a good de-worming.
Oh, yeah, dog wormer! 9 out of 10 flubronies approve!
Could this be another game changer?
Safe drug with a long history of human use for scabies and parasites.
Single dose could provide long term immunity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/health/scabies-treatment-ivermectin.html
Generic drug name Stromectol
Problem is, we dont know what dose it would take to create the concentration in human tissue needed to achieve the desired result. I read a paper where they used a 5 micromolar concentration in vitro. My crappy back of the envelope calculations led me to a resulting does of about 4000 micrograms per kilogram, but thats probably wrong.
Interesting stuff, humans can tolerate quite a lot of it, I read where doses of 2000 micrograms per kilogram have been used in humans.
Stupid article chloroquine phosphate is aquarium cleaner. Hydoxycloroquine sulphate is the medicine.
Ummmm....chloroquine phosphate is aquarium cleaner. Hydoxycloroquine sulphate is the medicine.