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Discovered in the late 1970s from a single soil microbe in Japan, ivermectin was not initially intended for people [1.2.2]. So, was ivermectin originally made for humans? The answer is no; it was first introduced as a revolutionary veterinary drug in 1981 [1.10.2, 1.3.3].

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of avermectin, the compound from which ivermectin is derived [1.9.4]. So, what is the natural source of ivermectin and how did this discovery change modern medicine?