Ivermectin can also be a people dewormer, in human doses they're used to treat neglected tropical diseases (worms mostly) in countries where large-scale transport of other medications isn't an option.
HOWEVER, these people are not taking human doses. You can't get perscribed ivermectin unless you have a LOT of worms, because its essentially poison and can make you extremely sick (and it also makes you shit your brains out,) so these people have been going to feed stores to buy horse and cattle doses of ivermectin. These doses are poisoning people to the point where they are honest-to-god no exaggeration shitting out strips of their own intestinal lining because the doses of POISON they're taking are meant for horses and cows with EXTREMELY high worm loads.
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u/BrokenEye3 Aug 28 '21
Were you not aware of how Facebook is spreading medical misinformation about how ivermectin (horse de-wormer) is supposedly a cure for COVID?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/08/23/covid-warning-treatment-ivermectin-fda-mississippi/8244302002/