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TeaBrain05/03/20251 replyview on HN

This old study found ivermectin efficacious in treating screw worm infected cattle:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-0813....


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nkurz05/03/2025

I appreciate the attempt to ground the discussion in research, but as MillironX pointed out elsewhere, ivermectin turns out to be less effective on Cochliomyia hominivorax (which the article is about) than on Chrysomya bezziana (which the paper you cited is about).

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