Ivermectin causes sterilization in 85 percent of men, study finds

[milestogo]

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The effects of Ivermectin therapy on human males can have an effect on men’s reproductive health.

Researchers at three universities in Nigeria studied the effects of Ivermectin, which is used to treat river blindness and other medical conditions in humans, on men’s sperm counts. According to their study, 85 percent of men who take Ivermectin become sterilized.

Ivermectin is often used as an anthelmintic to combat parasites in animals and some people have been using it to fight COVID-19 despite health experts’ recommendations against it.

The study conducted by researchers in Nigeria screened 385 patients with river blindness to investigate the effects of Ivermectin on sperm function.

The researchers found that 85 percent of all male patients treated in a particular center with ivermectin in the recent past who went to the laboratory for routine tests were discovered to have developed various forms, grades and degrees of sperm dysfunction.

Dysfunctions include the following:

Low sperm count
Poor sperm morphology
Two heads
Tiny heads
Double tails
Absence of tails
Albino sperm cells
Azoospermia, or the absence of motile sperm
Poor sperm motility

“There was a significant drop in the sperm counts of the patients after their treatment with Ivermectin,” the study’s authors concluded. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not authorized or approved Ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans or animals.

https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/ivermectin-causes-sterilization-in-85-percent-of-men-study-finds/

They'll study this in Nigeria, but the US is supposed to know better...

[NNadir]

1. Good. This means that the Fox KKK GOP types can't breed.

[lagomorph777]

2. Well, that's an encouraging bit of news. Self-eugenics on top of self-genocide.

These MAGATS are driving themselves to extinction.

[Blue Owl]

3. Well WTF are we waiting for -- let's get some rush shipments out to the males of the GOP

[roamer65]

4. Great news for population reduction!

[catchnrelease]

37. Yes...

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[ret5hd]

5. This. Is. Hilarious.

[milestogo]

6. "Tiny Heads"

[monkeyman1]

28. they can't even think straight why one , let alone with 2 ! hilarious !

[DBoon]

7. Winning a Darwin Award does not require the nominee's death

an inability to reproduce will suffice

[GulfCoast66]

9. Correct. In the past a man doing something stupid that cost them their Balls qualified.

The award is about being unable to breed due to stupidity. Not just dying due to stupidity.

I’m now a fan of increased ivermectin use in young evangelical males. And I’m an Ex-evangelical.

[cadoman]

8. thank you, this will get them thinking!

Here is a direct link to the study:

https://www.scholarsresearchlibrary.com/articles/effects-of-ivermectin-therapy-on-the-sperm-functions-of-nigerian-onchocerciasis-patients.pdf

[BigmanPigman]

16. Well, they haven't been "thinking" much

so this would be a good start....if they can read and comprehend it that is.

[FirefighterJo]

10. Wasn't one of the reasons...

... those asshats refused the vaccine because it would affect their sperm and virility ? Karma is a bitch, better enjoy her while it lasts... 😁

[LeftInTX]

11. Good!

[Enter stage left]

12. I'd like to see all Evangelical and Republican registered males at the age of 21...

be baptized in Ivermectin every 6 months for the rest of their lives.

[bottomofthehill]

13. Ha, best news I have heard all day

[Indykatie]

14. Best Damn News I Heard In Days.

[lame54]

15. The Morning Before Pill

[Celerity]

18. thread winner

[mackdaddy]

17. Covid infection can cause a five fold increased risk of Erectile Dysfunction, too.

So not only will you not be able to get it up, taking Ivermectin will cause you to shoot blanks.

And yet so many will still not get the vaccine, but will take horse dewormer?

Competing for BOTH the Darwin Award, AND the Herman Cane Award...


https://health.clevelandclinic.org/yes-covid-19-can-cause-erectile-dysfunction/

[orleans]

36. those guys are just having the worst time with their d*cks

maybe if they had just manned up and vaxxed up but nooooooo

[BaronChocula]

19. Shhhhhhhhhh!

Don't tell!

[calimary]

20. Well, Greg Abbott, you interested?

Yeah, that’ll take care of all the rapists…

[PurgedVoter]

21. Shhhhh!

Can everyone just delete this original post and all comments. No particular reason, just thinking this one might be better kept quiet.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Big shout out to Darwin's Little Helpers(TM)!

Maybe they can't do enough to protect us from MAGA stupidity in this generation, but they can prevent it being propagated genetically, at least.

[aggiesal]

23. Irony Deficient ...

Irony is thick with this story!

[cstanleytech]

24. If true its the one good side effect assuming of course its administered before the morons

manage to breed.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

25. So ... how long does this effect last?

Only while you're taking it and then everything's fine the next day, or ... is it longer?

[Alger60]

26. The Onion

The Onion headline couldn't be better than this! Tots and pears!

[3catwoman3]

27. I don't see a Borowitz or Onion link here.

Please let this be so.

[Equomba]

29. So... would this translate to a net gain of 10% for Repuke Men?

Not bad!

[Hekate]

30. This is horrifying, really

[DFW]

31. For real?

I hereby declare my new stand on the stuff. Not only should it be given to every Republican male that requests it. It should also be given to every Republican male that doesn’t request it!

[NBachers]

32. Well, it's less painful than the old method, which was shooting their own balls off.

[jmowreader]

33. Please let the AP pick this up

My newspaper needs to run this, and we only run national news off the AP feed.

[nvme]

34. I really wish they wouldn't be so stupid.

but if it thins the herd................Leave them be.

[caraher]

35. Apparently that 85% figure is badly supported

The gist: it's not part of the Nigerian study but comes from a report referenced (badly) by the paper. That report resists confirmation because the reference leads nowhere.

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This is a Nigerian study on patients with river blindness, and I’m so sorry to tell you this but river blindness is a truly horrific condition that is endemic mostly in sub-Saharan countries, and it is caused by worms in your eyeballs. You get it by getting bit by a fly that has the worms. As you may have learned in my previous video, ivermectin specifically attacks nerve cells found in invertebrates, so the treatment for river blindness is to take ivermectin once a year for ten to 15 years.

So. The “85%” figure comes NOT from this study linked in the tweet but from a reference to a “report” the authors mention. Their citation of that report isn’t written correctly so I had to go searching for it, and in doing so I found another curious person who found the same thing. Because this is the internet, I must refer to him as “Falcon Darkstar.” Falcon…Mr. Darkstar…points out that the Journal of Biomedical Investigation wasn’t published until 2003, but the reference points to 2002. He couldn’t find any similar report and I can’t either. So sorry, but we have to throw out the 85% idea unless and until we see a real study on it.

The actual study linked looked at 385 patients with river blindness, which would be a great number of subjects to have, so it’s unfortunate that they dismissed 90% of them for various reasons like “too low of a sperm count already,” leaving them with a scant 37 subjects. Of those, they found that for various reasons, 60% of the patients lost fertility after taking ivermectin. And that’s it! A handful of men experienced a drop in fertility, but we don’t know for how long, or why, or if this is just a statistical blip due to having so few subjects in the study. And, knowing that the authors couldn’t even cite a report from a journal that existed at the time they say it was published, are we really confident in the rest of their data?

[crickets]

41. Thanks for this. It deserves its own OP. nt

[Voltaire2]

38. It's bullshit.

[FreepFryer]

39. Snopes says unproven, not credible publisher, US FDA denies the finding. (Nt)

The study in question was not published in a credible journal, nor was it hosted by an accredited, reputable institution. In the decade since the study’s supposed 2011 publication, there has been little — if any — related research to confirm its findings. Furthermore, a spokesperson for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told Snopes that infertility in men is not a known side effect of ivermectin and, as such, is not included in U.S. labeling requirements.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ivermectin-sterility-in-men/

[Champp]

40. Republican party is killing itself