Mississippi officials warn against using ivermectin for COVID-19 amid spike in poisonings

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(They won't get the COVID vaccine, but they'll use a horse de-wormer?)

Mississippi health officials are warning residents against using ivermectin, a horse dewormer medication, to treat COVID-19 infections at home amid a spike in poisoning calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center. The Mississippi Department of Health sent a letter out to to the MS Health Alert Network on Friday warning health professionals of the spike in poisonings from individuals digesting ivermectin.

“At least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers,” the letter stated. Some of the symptoms individuals can experience are rash, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, neurologic disorders, and sometimes severe hepatitis.

“Animal drugs are highly concentrated for large animals and can be highly toxic in humans,” the letter signed by state epidemiologist Paul Byers stated. “Patients should be advised to not take any medications intended to treat animals and should be instructed to only take ivermectin as prescribed by their physician.”

The increase in ivermectin use comes as Mississippi is struggling to deal with an increase in coronavirus cases as the state has the second-lowest vaccination rate in the U.S.

(Haven’t FOX folks been suggesting ivermectin, a horse dewormer ?)

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/568834-mississippi-officials-warn-against-using-ivermectin-for-covid-amid-spike

[Champp]

1. If only Republicans would stop lying to the good people of Mississippi

they would be ok

[Botany]

2. Maybe they are taking too small of a dose?

[stillcool]

4. you're bad...

[Texaswitchy]

3. I heard it taste like apples.

Not fair to the horses.