Head lice drug emerges as potential coronavirus treatment, studies show
From a century-old blood plasma therapy to an anti-malarial drug called hydroxychloroquine, the scientific community is exploring new ways to leverage existing treatments in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
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The development of ivermectin as an anti-parasitic treatment dates back to the 1970s and 1980s, first as a veterinary treatment for nematodes in cattle and later as a way to combat river blindness in humans. More recently, ivermectin is known for its topical use in treating head lice. Its use in treating those and other parasites has earned ivermectin a spot on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines.
But now, researchers are looking to the drug for broader use in killing off SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 – and earlier this month, a team of scientists in Australia found just that in test tubes.
“We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it,” said Dr. Kylie Wagstaff, the leader of the team from Melbourne’s Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.
The coronavirus is not a parasite, but experts suggest that the drug essentially treats it like one and blocks the viral RNA from invading healthy cells. Unable to enter the cell, the RNA is slowed from replicating, giving the patient's immune system more time to fight it off.
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Great. Here's another drug Trump will push before all tests are done.
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A variant of this crap poisoned and killed my cat in 2016.
She was blind and paralyzed to name just a few of her deadly symptoms!
And yes, she had white feet, hence the "Do not treat white feet". This is a genetic variant that causes animals (horses included) that will die if treated with this sh*t.
Dogs, esp. affected include Shelties, Dalmations, many small dogs, esp. thoroughbreds and many other breeds of both dogs and cats that have white feet!
After her death, I studied this extensively. I could not accept the cause of death listed as "unknown".
I still have that 3" thick file I complied during my research which went on for months after her death. She had 15 of the 20 symptoms of poisoning from SPINOSAD, but they ignored this FACT.
This same group of poisons is used on "organic" crops (orange, strawberries and lettuce to name just a few) and marijuana growers (the under-the-table ones) use this to control mites on marijuana crops, so please AVOID marijuana crops that are not tested for toxicity please!
It is aka SPINOSAD, the poison found in the flea killer known as "Comfortis".
Neurotoxic paralysis is what killed my cat, and wow, what a hell of a way to die! It was absolutely the most horrific thing I've ever seen in my life! 
The drug companies know this but they continue to sell it anyway because it is all about money OF COURSE!
They really DO NOT CARE ABOUT U much less your now dead cat or dog!
Ivermectin is in a class of medications called anthelmintics. It treats strongyloidosis by killing the worms in the intestines. It treats onchocerciasis by killing the developing worms. Ivermectin does not kill the adult worms that cause onchocerciasis and therefore it will not cure this type of infection.
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The drug is called ivermectin and whilst it can do many things, one thing it can do is kill nerves. It appears by targeting a chloride channel (GABA) When it was given to a mouse strain called the MDR-1 mice, it killed them because of toxicity to the nerves. In Collie Dogs there were neurological problems and I once here a story of a human who was working at a Pot farm who got neurological problems. They were controlling pot mites with avermectin a close relative of ivermectin.
Whilst ivermectin has been used in millions of animals that have taken this drug as it is used to kill parasites like mites that live on the surface of people and even pinworms and it has also been used by millions of people to treat parasitic helminthic worm infections that get in your eyes, if this drug had been tested in a Collie dogs and a certain type of mouse. This drug would never have been invented. It could have killed “Lassie“.
Why is this relevant. There are genetic variants of a protein called P-glycoprotein. This is a drug pump that is very highly expressed in the blood vessels of the brain. It keeps fatty drugs out of the brain.
The MDR-1 mice do not have p-glycoprotein and so they cannot pump ivermectin out of the brain and this means the drugs goes into the brain, it kill nerves. It causes the problem in Collie dogs and this possibly the problem for the Pot worker. Ivermectin has been used safety in many humans , and we all know that asparin is used safely in many humans, but it can have issues.
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Serious side effects
Call your doctor right away if you have serious side effects. Call 911 if your symptoms feel life-threatening or if you think you’re having a medical emergency. Serious side effects and their symptoms can include the following:
Pain in your neck and back
Serious eye problems. Symptoms can include:
redness
bleeding
swelling
pain
loss of vision
Shortness of breath
Inability to control urination
Inability to control bowel movements
Trouble standing or walking
Confusion
Extreme tiredness
Extreme drowsiness
Seizures
Coma
Low blood pressure, especially when you get up after sitting or lying down. Symptoms can include:
lightheadedness
dizziness
fainting
Severe skin reactions. Symptoms can include:
severe rash
redness
blistering skin
peeling skin
Liver damage. Symptoms can include:
tiredness
nausea
vomiting
loss of appetite
pain on the right side of your stomach
dark urine
yellowing of your skin or the whites of your eyes
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Damn, the level of desperation is not only stupid, it is plain DANGEROUS! 
When will people wake up to the fact that we are all being poisoned literally to DEATH!
from school, I confess I was extremely glad to be able to poison them, and my husband and I. Tying them up in plastic bags with their stuffed toys to get rid of the lice was not an option. And as a working mom, spending a week at home working through their hair with a lice comb for hours each day was also just not an option, though it would, strictly speaking, presumably have been healthier.
as in to swallow.
You really don't care to go there.
That comb does the job and wouldn't you be glad to know that it may have prevented your child from getting sick due to exposure to a poison?
I would NEVER use this crap on any living thing, animal, vegetable or mineral after what I witnessed. 
get their eggs out. Product recommended and prescribed by the health department.
We didn't have the web back then, and it's such an incredible resource for parents. One night in desperation I called a child psychiatric research institute near my home in West Hollywood when Dr. Spock had failed me and my one-year-old again. I was such a kid. Fortunately a nice psychiatrist was still there and came through with sensible advice any good mom would have if I could have reached one.
as said toys, bedding, everyone, have to be deal with basically at once, not over time. Not surprised your mom's reaction is memorable. 
I had to be at a meeting an hour away the next morning and fly out the next afternoon. Got list of requirements and prescription materials down at the health department after our pediatric group wouldn't give an appointment for two days (then I was mad!), called all our friends to warn them, washed everything that could be washed and vacuumed, bag tied off, everyone working, arranged to meet the floating school nurse at a local high school at 6 the next morning to get the kids signed off and in school. On the plus side was, after a pack of running around, the family sitting together on the front steps combing and picking over each other's heads like a pack of baboons.
Memories.
Hopefully there's something to this as a treatment for those symptomatic care may lose.
They do not know WTF they are dealing w/IMO!
So, go ahead and give yourself a few doses of ivermectin and see what happens seems to be the new reality in a desperate move to do anything? This is plain criminal!
How can taking some horse wormer possibly hurt after all? 
They are grasping at straws!
dump is desperate to get the DOW going full blast again just before the election comes! 
A small study is not good enough.
You need at least 30 subjects for a study.
For it to have any efficacy at all, you need many more studies, not just one small observational one.
