Posted on 01/31/2022 7:53:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A Japanese conglomerate has found that the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin is effective and safe for the treatment of the coronavirus Omicron variant, according to a phase III clinical trial.
Kowa Co. Ltd., a conglomerate with interests in trading, hospitality, and electronics, along with health and medical applications, issued a press release (pdf) on Jan. 31 stating that ivermectin has been found to be effective against Omicron.
Kowa representatives didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
The company, working with Kitasato University based in Tokyo, said that ivermectin has the “same antiviral effect” on all “mutant strains,” including Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. Kowa added that ivermectin suppresses invasion of the virus and inhibits its replication.
“[Ivermectin] is expected to be applied as a therapeutic drug (tablet) for all new coronavirus infectious diseases,” the report said.
Ivermectin has been used by the World Health Organization for over 30 years to treat parasitic infections. Volunteers have distributed the drug in African countries where it has been found to be extremely effective, said the Kowa report.
However, the treatment has been mired in controversy during recent times as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, even though the drug is used in humans to treat a variety of conditions.
The FDA has refused to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) asking for details about any reports of side effects related to the use of ivermectin in treating COVID-19 while publicly denouncing its usage.
The federal government pays hospitals across the country to treat COVID-19 patients, but the payment is tied to approved methods, and ivermectin is not part of the protocol.
However, families desperate to save their loved ones are resorting to secretly sneaking the drug into hospitals as a last-ditch effort that often ends up helping the infected person recover.
All or part of 22 countries around the globe have approved the use of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19, based on multiple studies. Japan has not yet approved ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.
A bill has been presented to make New Hampshire the first state in the country to make ivermectin part of the approved COVID-19 treatments and offer it as an over-the-counter medication.
“I have absolutely no doubt lives will be saved if human grade ivermectin was available to COVID patients,” state Rep. Leah Cushman, a Republican and also a registered nurse, told The Epoch Times about her proposed bill HB3005.
The detractors of using ivermectin have claimed that the drug is extremely dangerous. “I would never want this medication prescribed to myself or my family and would take legal action against anyone who recommended this to my loved ones,” Dr. David Levine of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center wrote in his written testimony on the bill.
Dr. Paul Marik, a supporter of using ivermectin, testified that ivermectin “is one of the safest drugs on the face of this planet.”
Marik, who is a co-founder of the physician-comprised advocacy group Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, said ivermectin is approved for the treatment of viruses in 79 countries.
“So somehow Japanese people, Indian people, Brazilian people can tolerate it safely, but it’s toxic in Americans. You have to be kidding,” Marik said.
Marik was forced to resign from his position at the Eastern Virginia Medical School over legal battles regarding the usage of alternate treatments for COVID-19, including using ivermectin.
Ping for your interest
only 22 countries out of what? over 200! nothing to see here, move along...peasants!
Big Pharma has not acquired control of Dr. Marik,,,,He is a great American.
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I hear the MSM deceptively edited the report to make it sound entirely different than what it was.
Nope. Only the vaccines are safe and effective. Four shots in nine months is perfectly normal for safe and effective treatments that we can’t know what is in them, can’t know about testing for 75 years, can’t sue if there is an issue and developed by a company that was charged, found guilty and paid the largest criminal fine in history.
RE: I hear the MSM deceptively edited the report to make it sound entirely different than what it was.
How was it edited and how did it read like after the edit?
Apparently ‘Ivermectin’ has the “same antiviral effect” on all “mutant strains,” including Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. .....Kowa added that ivermectin suppresses invasion of the virus and inhibits its replication.
Ping!
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Feb. 10, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.govDiscovered 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.
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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.
Ivermectin was approved for human use by the NIH in 2015. My cousin takes it for Lupus.
One note not obvious. After the Olympics, the Japanese medical system almost immediately approved Ivermectin for all doctors in the country to issue out. If you go and pull out the Japanese infection rate, the hospitalization rate, and death rate....they all start dropping like a rock within two to three weeks.
The death rate isn’t zero, but day by day for the past four months...it generally averages around two to six deaths nationally. That’s it. I’m kinda surprised no has spoken over their success.
When are we bombing Japan again?
RE: Ivermectin was approved for human use by the NIH in 2015. My cousin takes it for Lupus.
Are you sure you’re not confusing Ivermectin with Hydroxychloroquine?
Can Neil Young repossess all his music in Japan?
Ping.
Earlier articles from Reuters look like they downlayed the report, but I don’t trust the media these days on either side . I’d like to see a word for word translation.
https://www.kowa.co.jp/news/2022/press220131.pdf
Large, peer-reviewed research study proves ivermectin works.
https://flccc.substack.com/p/large-peer-reviewed-research-study
Ivermectin was developed by Merck in 1980 to treat human river blindness. It’s been in use for 40:years.
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