A team of Australian researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have found that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug that has been used to effectively fight viruses including HIV, Influenza, and Zika — was able to stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from growing in cell cultures.While promising, the drug has yet to be shown to have the same effect inside the
human body, because the Australian research was conducted “in vitro,” meaning it was in a Petri dish at a lab.The researchers are still trying to nail down funding for pre-clinical testing and clinical trials, after which they’d have to start the long approval process for the
trials themselves.“We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48
hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it,” Kylie Wagstaff, lead researcher and co-author of the study published today in Antiviral Research , said in a statement. “Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug,” Wagstaff said. “We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective
— that’s the next step.”
“As the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-COV2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of
Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19,” Leon Caly, senior medical scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
(VIDRL) at the Doherty Institute, said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8186287/Monash-University-scientists-anti-parasite-Ivermectin-kill-COVID-19-cells-two-days.html

May this be the good news weve been waiting for.

Nice

spinna:
May this be the good news weve been waiting for.

it is o
gradually we are getting there.

Stoooooory! That's what American president said about chloroquine and Americans are still dying like fowl abeg shey the chloroquine no dey work? Until it's tested it won't be trusted. They should have done more trials & gotten more good results than giving early false hope...

GYBABA:
Stoooooory! That's what American president said about chloroquine and Americans are still dying like fowl abeg shey the chloroquine no dey work? Until it's tested it won't be trusted. They should have done more trials & gotten more good results than giving early false hope...

so much negativity.its still in trial phase

for real

Professorcplus:
for real

Yep

It worked

If I was the president of Nigeria, I will fund tradomedical research for covid19 cure, science seems to be slow (if not a tool for corporate scam). Ask scientists what they know about covid19 and you will see zigzag responses. In this time of huge need for science to profer scientific solutions, we are almost seeing science becoming a game of guessing or 'trial and error'