Like penicillin and aspirin, ivermectin is a medication that derives from nature.
Although it was little known in advanced health economies before COVID, the drug has an incredible history of promoting health in underdeveloped countries. Approved for human use in 1987, it has been instrumental in tackling some of the world’s most harmful tropical diseases, such as Onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis (also known as Elephantiasis), strongyloidiasis and scabies. It also effectively fights parasitic infestations in animals, which can be economically devastating to the livestock industry.
In addition to being an effective, broad-spectrum anti-parasitic, many healthcare professionals have been using ivermectin for decades to treat a variety of other diseases.
“Few, if any, other drugs can rival ivermectin for its beneficial impact on human health and welfare,” wrote Andy Crump in The Journal of Antibiotics in 2017. Crump worked with Satoshi Ōmura, the Japanese microbiologist responsible for discovering ivermectin, for decades.
Ivermectin is one of the safest drugs known. It is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, has been given over 4 billion times around the globe, and won the Nobel Prize for its global and historic impacts in eradicating endemic parasitic infections in many parts of the world.
It is important to look at evidence from all sources when deciding whether to use a particular treatment approach. FLCCC used the totality of evidence approach when deciding on whether to recommend ivermectin as a potential treatment for COVID-19.
A growing evidence base of dozens of studies around the world demonstrates ivermectin’s unique and highly potent ability to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication and aid in recovery from COVID-19. Based on this evidence, and on first-hand clinical observations, the FLCCC recommends its use, as part of a combination therapy, in all stages of COVID-19. View our protocols for more information on specific strategies.
For comprehensive information on ivermectin please refer to our Review of the Emerging Evidence Supporting the Use of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19 and the included references.
While ivermectin is a remarkably safe drug with minimal adverse reactions (almost all minor), some potential drug-drug interactions should be reviewed before prescribing ivermectin. The most important drug-drug interactions occur with cyclosporin, tacrolimus, antiretroviral drugs, and certain antifungal drugs.
For a fuller review of the safety of ivermectin, see FLCCC Information Evidence for Safety of Ivermectin.
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The Whole Family Used the Protocol
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She Saw Through The Lies and Stuck to Her Guns
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Within a couple weeks after using ivermectin, her regular morning battles with diarrhea stopped by 80%. It is now more like 95% gone and she’s gotten her life back.
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My Family Doctor Thought I Was “Nuts” to Consider ivermectin
Almost everyone she knows has been vaxxed and boosted and boosted and have still had COVID at least one or multiple times. She and her husband have not had COVID. And even more than that, they have not had a flu, a cold or any sickness since they started taking ivermectin.
Quarantine in 2023 Grecian Style
They were happy to get home after they got ill with COVID on a recent trip to Greece, they were denied ivermectin even though it was available to EU citizens. This was in 2023!
Her Chronic Pain of 37 Years Almost Disappeared After Taking Ivermectin
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Shannon Believes Ivermectin Saved Her Mother-in-Law’s Life
Shannon and her husband Matt had ivermectin already in their “just in case” kit thanks to the FLCCC and a tele doc. When his Mom, who was recently diagnosed with blood cancer, got COVID they gave her ivermectin. She had mild symptoms for one day and one night.
A Quick Recovery with Ivermectin
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“The Only Drug That Was Able to Give Me Some Relief, Ivermectin”
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