it s also used as a dewormerfor horses. and the advice from the us food and drug administration the fda is clear while there are approved uses for ivermectin in people and animals, it is not approved for the prevention or treatment of covid 19. by the end of august, the fda s language had evolved. it tweeted: you are not a horse. you are not a cow. seriously, y all. stop it! its intervention was prompted by an increase in sales of ivermectin. this is one pet shop manager in texas. we typically sell maybe ten of those in a month. but in the past month we have probably sold 50 to 100. we do not know if that is what they are using it for. evidently the fda has a theory. so does nbc s ben collins. in a twitter thread he promised to explain how people started eating horse goo . he wrote: anti vaxxers started imploring each other to go to pet stores,
happen future generations on the line. if happen future generations on the line. , ., ,., the tough questions continue for the us secretary of state on the us pull out from afghanistan. who is responsible? who made the decisions on this? was it the president of the united states? ultimately, the president makes the decision. that s correct. also in the uk, prime minister boris johnson says all the adults over 50 will be getting a third booster shot, and we will look. the third dose of six shot, and we will look. the third dose of six months shot, and we will look. the third dose of six months after - shot, and we will look. the third dose of six months after your - shot, and we will look. the third i dose of six months after your second dose, so that is going to be we are going to be building even higher laws of immunisation of vaccination protection in this country. a look at a rising demand for a drug sometimes used to the worm animals thatis sometimes used to the worm animals t
you may have recognised the pictures used at the start of that report. they were of the wildfires in australia in 2019 the worst bushfire season on record. dozens of people died, more than ten million hectares of land burned and over a billion animals are estimated to have died, with many species pushed close to extinction. professor lesley hughes is from the australia climate council. the report released a few weeks ago had one little silver lining, which is it made it very clear that if we reduce emissions rapidly and deeply within the next few years, and certainly before 2030, we have a chance of leveling off global temperatures by the middle of the century. 720 to 30 years time, in the lifetimes of us, and to then move towards a safer operating space for humanity so, 20 to 30 years.
claiming the horse and people ivermectin are the same. they started sharing tips on how to eat the gel kind. they started hoarding it. that is called equine paste dewormer, and it comes in an ace flavour. and look at this according to the us national poison data system there was a jump in reported exposure cases from july to august from 133 to 459. in other words these are people who ve taken ivermectin and become ill. and the fda says this. we ve identified multiple concerning cases who required medical treatment and were hospitalised after using ivermectin products to treat covid 19. some of these products were intended for animal use, others for human use. it seems either the distinction between the products for humans and the products for animals is not registering or some people don t mind. and to understand why ivermectin has become bound up in the pandemic, we need to go back to last year. to this study published in april which showed that high ivermectin