“You are not a horse” .. an American warning against taking a veterinary drug to treat the crown

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday warned against taking ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug commonly used in animals, to treat or prevent Covid-19 disease, caused by the Corona virus.

The warning came a day after the Mississippi State Department of Health issued a similar statement in response to reports that a growing number of people in the state were using the drug to prevent infection with Covid, according to the New York Times.

And the National Institutes of Health said last February that most studies related to ivermectin and the virus “contain incomplete information and significant methodological limitations,” including the results of studies that boosted its consumption, including most are unclear.

Ivermectin, which is mainly used to treat parasitic worms, has been widely promoted as a potential treatment for Corona virus, but recent studies have shown that its effectiveness is very low and has not been approved.

In turn, the Food and Drug Administration posted a tweet on Twitter, in which it read: “You are not a horse, you are not a cow … Stop.”

The administration said it had received several reports from people who “needed medical support and were taken to hospital after self-treatment with ivermectin,” noting that “taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm “.

The administration has granted emergency use permits for three coronavirus vaccines to prevent COVID-19.

The disease has killed more than 630,000 people in the United States since the pandemic began in early 2020. Since then, more than 37.6 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported across the country, according to a count from NBC News. .