Tag: Parasitic drugs

While fenbendazole is known for a wide margin of safety in animals, reports show severe drug-induced liver injury in humans who take too much fenbendazole for unapproved, off-label uses. This highlights a crucial distinction in species-specific pharmacology and the serious dangers of self-medication with veterinary products.

The discovery of the compounds that led to ivermectin won a Nobel Prize in 2015. So, **what is ivermectin made of**? It is a semisynthetic antiparasitic derived from a naturally occurring soil bacterium, *Streptomyces avermitilis*.