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That's odd. A quick look at sci-hub shows a bunch of ivermectin papers that don't look half bad.

I figure that if a physician wants to go off-label on a prescription they should go ahead. Plenty of warnings of course.

Buying it at the feed store along with fish antibiotics is sketchy, but remember that it's your body after all. People forget that. God knows how many people are harmed by Tylenol overdoses.

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The issue is that there aren't any studies showing that safe doses are effective for treating this disease in humans. The studies on monkey cell cultures are what they are, but nobody seems to be noticing that the dose you'd have to use to get those effects in living humans is unsafe. As a rule, medicine should be more likely to treat the illness than to kill you. If my doctor prescribed Ivermectin, I guess I'd take it, but if my doctor prescribed it at this point, they should get their license revoked.

>The issue is that there aren't any studies showing that safe doses are effective for treating this disease in humans.

Actually I'm seeing a few, but they suffer from the typical lack of statistical rigor that I've come to expect in medical studies and fall into the 'further studies are needed' bin.

As a side note, I'm always blown away by the poor quality of many medical papers. Publish or perish? Dunno.

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