Ivermectin discovery and backstory – definitely for the “Just Too Cool” file…
The more you read about Ivermectin, the cooler it gets.
It was discovered by a Japanese bacteriologist named Satoshi Ōmura in the 1960s as he was randomly collecting soil samples and culturing them to see what bacteria cropped up, and if there were any previously undiscovered, and if so, if they had any medicinal properties.
You know. SCIENCE.
Well, sure enough, Streptomyces avermictilis, Omura named it, cropped up in a sample from his golf course outside of Tokyo. Its anti-parasitic properties were instantly identified by Merck, and it became, as this article says, one of the top-three all-time most important and essential drugs in human history, along with penicillin and aspirin. Over 3.7 billion doses have been dispensed to HUMANS so far, with not only no real side effects, but also no reduction in its efficacy... It has won two Nobel Peace prizes for its contribution to human health... read on...
Thank you. I was looking for exactly this, and found it in the first message I opened!
It kills me when the media's first reference to Ivermectin is as a "horse dewormer."
That would be like referring to the invention of the safety match as the development of "an arsonists tool."
It's the same as referring to antibiotics as "dog ear meds"
Intent is obvious, and this is convincing doctors and pharmacists who have prescribed it to humans for their entire career that the media is lying to them.
Ivermectin discovery and backstory – definitely for the “Just Too Cool” file… The more you read about Ivermectin, the cooler it gets.
It was discovered by a Japanese bacteriologist named Satoshi Ōmura in the 1960s as he was randomly collecting soil samples and culturing them to see what bacteria cropped up, and if there were any previously undiscovered, and if so, if they had any medicinal properties.
You know. SCIENCE.
Well, sure enough, Streptomyces avermictilis, Omura named it, cropped up in a sample from his golf course outside of Tokyo. Its anti-parasitic properties were instantly identified by Merck, and it became, as this article says, one of the top-three all-time most important and essential drugs in human history, along with penicillin and aspirin. Over 3.7 billion doses have been dispensed to HUMANS so far, with not only no real side effects, but also no reduction in its efficacy... It has won two Nobel Peace prizes for its contribution to human health... read on...
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/05/10/ivermectin-discovery-and-backstory-definitely-for-the-just-too-cool-file/
Thank you. I was looking for exactly this, and found it in the first message I opened!
It kills me when the media's first reference to Ivermectin is as a "horse dewormer."
That would be like referring to the invention of the safety match as the development of "an arsonists tool."
Wrong again, the match is a mostly peaceful protest lightswitch for illuminating the protest.
It's the same as referring to antibiotics as "dog ear meds"
Intent is obvious, and this is convincing doctors and pharmacists who have prescribed it to humans for their entire career that the media is lying to them.
Ahh...most excellent Smithers...excellent. 🙌🏻
An inspired find.