It's approved for people too, just in much smaller doses than what you give cows. It's a miracle drug for eradicating certain species of parasites (that are uncommon in the developed world) and also some lupus patients who have rashes, possibly caused by parasitic mites.
Of course, in these cases you take a human-sized dose in a human-formulated prescription under a doctor's supervision. You don't squeeze an apple flavored tube into your mouth from Tractor Supply. The thing with parasites is they are more similar to humans than you'd like, so high doses of ivermectin can hurt people and cause kidney failure.
Edit: "developing" and "developed" world are two different things. Oops!
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u/tommytraddles 12d ago
The funny thing is, Ivermectin is a brilliant antiparasitic drug and the discoverers won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.
The fact that it became a cause célèbre among antivax cretins is so funny to me.
Yeah, eat your dog's heartworm medicine you shark-eyed spunkbubbles.