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Scabies: Ivermectin use in mass drug administration

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The first country-wide mass drug administration in the world for the treatment of scabies is happening in the Solomon Islands. The World Scabies Program is spearheading the mass drug...

Ivermectin campaign for scabies to be rolled out in the Solomon Islands

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 An anti-parasitic drug will be rolled out on mass scale in the Solomon Islands to prevent scabies, a contagious, intensely itchy skin condition that affects a third of the nation’s...

FAU researchers recommend a moratorium on prescribing ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Ivermectin is a drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat parasites in animals and in humans with intestinal strongyloidiasis (roundworm) and onchocerciasis (river...

Ivermectin: One dose just as effective as two at reducing scabies, according to study

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 One dose of an anti-parasite drug was just as effective as two at significantly reducing the spread of scabies, the contagious, intensely itchy skin condition, according to a new...

Baricitinib receives WHO nod for treating patients with COVID-19

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The drug baricitinib (a type of drug known as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis) is strongly recommended for patients with severe...

Top 10 most popular posts of 2021 on Outbreak News Today, Most popular podcast

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this post, an annual tradition, I want to recognize the Top 10 most popular posts of the year on the website based on the amount of traffic received starting at number...

Ivermectin and dafachronic acid combo identified as possible cure for Strongyloidiasis

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Combining two agents to block a parasitic worm’s life cycle boosted survival from a potentially deadly tropical disease to 85% in animal models, far better than either...

Fighting West Nile Virus by adding ivermectin to backyard bird feeders

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Researchers at the University of California, Davis and Colorado State University presented evidence at the ASTMH Annual Meeting that adding ivermectin to backyard bird feeders...

Ivermectin credited with eliminating river blindness in Plateau and Nasarawa states in Nigeria

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New data indicate that mass treatment with ivermectin—a drug that was a workhorse of tropical medicine long before it emerged as a controversial COVID-19 treatment—has...

Ivermectin does not reduce risk of severe illness from COVID-19: Malaysia study

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Institute for Clinical Research (ICR) NIH today announced findings for the Ivermectin study (I-TECH) in 500 hospitalised patients with Stage 2 or 3 COVID-19. This multi-centre...