The Amazing Story of How Ivermectin Was Discovered

Executive Summary

• Ivermectin’s discovery is an interesting story with essential explanations for how a drug can grow in usage.

Introduction

Ivermectin has one of the most exciting stories regarding its discovery of any drug. However, most accurate information about Ivermectin was written before the covid plandemic/plandemic. This is because, after the pandemic, Ivermectin became a disreputable drug according to the medical establishment that only “bad people” who are right-leaning take. It became considered the drug of the “deplorable.” However, a drug is not left or right-leaning.

How Ivermectin Was Isolated from Bacteria

This quote is from the article IS Global.

The story of how ivermectin was discovered is quite incredible. In the late 1960s, Satoshi Ōmura, a microbiologist at Tokyo’s Kitasako Institute, was hunting for new antibacterial compounds and started to collect thousands of soil samples from around Japan. He cultured bacteria from the samples, screened the cultures for medicinal potential, and sent them 10,000 km away to Merck Research Labs in New Jersey, where his collaborator, William Campbell, tested their effect against parasitic worms affecting livestock and other animals. One culture, derived from a soil sample collected near a golf course southwest of Tokyo, was remarkably effective against worms. The bacterium in the culture was a new species, and was baptised Streptomyces avermictilis. The active component, named avermectin, was chemically modified to increase its activity and its safety. The new compound, called ivermectin, was commercialised as a product for animal health in 1981 and soon became a top-selling veterinary drug in the world.

This means that the active component was taken from a naturally occurring bacteria.

Ivermectin’s Ever-expanding Areas of Treatment

Since Ivermectin was first discovered, it has been continually outstanding in its ability to be applied to different areas of medicine. This is explained in the following quotation.

Campbell urged his colleagues to study ivermectin as a potential treatment for onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness), a devastating disease caused by worms and transmitted by flies, that left millions of people blind, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. The first clinical trials in Senegal showed that the treatment worked, and ivermectin was approved for human use in 1987. – IS Global

What the Medical Establishment Did Not Want to be Known by the Public

The everyday use of Ivermectin in Africa is one reason African nations did not have the predicted problems with covid. Countries that used Ivermectin, like India and Indonesia, were more successful against covid than those that used the vaccines. This is because of something the US medical establishment hates to admit: Ivermectin and other antiparasitic drugs are also effective against viruses.

Billions of Doses of Ivermectin

Since then, more than 3.7 billion doses (donated by Merck laboratories) have been distributed globally in mass drug administration campaigns against onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (another disease caused by worms, which causes severe swelling of limbs). – IS Global