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Florida Poison Control reports spike in cases related to ivermectin, Most involve meds for livestock

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By NewsDesk @bactiman63 Florida Poison Control tweeted last week that they are seeing a spike in cases related to ivermectin, a deworming medication. They report treating 27 patients in August, primarily...

Ivermectin prescriptions up dramatically, Poison control receives five-fold increase in calls

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By NewsDesk @bactiman63 Ivermectin is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prescription medication used to treat certain infections caused by internal and external parasites. During the...

Modernized tetracycline antibiotic, NUZYRA, added as alternate agent to treat plague

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By NewsDesk @bactiman63 Boston-based biopharmaceutical company, Paratek Pharmaceuticals announced the novel, once-daily oral and intravenous antibiotic NUZYRA® (omadacycline) has recently been added...

Potential Overuse of Antibiotics Found in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia

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Only 21 percent of patients with severe pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) have a documented bacterial superinfection at the time of intubation, resulting in potential overuse...

FDA ivermectin warning: You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) put out a tweet Saturday that has garnered a lot of attention (with 36.6K retweets as of this writing) which states: You...

Ivermectin warning: Increased Poison Control calls in Mississippi

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Mississippi state health authorities issued a health alert Friday due to increased Poison Control calls due to ivermectin ingestion and potential toxicity. The...

Cholesterol medication, Fenofibrate, could reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection by up to 70 per cent: UK study

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A licensed drug normally used to treat abnormal levels of fatty substances in the blood could reduce infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus by up to 70 per cent, reveals a study in the laboratory by...

Antibiotics: DALVANCE receives FDA approval

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AbbVie announced Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved DALVANCE® (dalbavancin) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in pediatric...

Sleeping sickness: Fexinidazole receives FDA approval for treatment

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved fexinidazole as the first all-oral treatment for both stages of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis). Fexinidazole was...

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New antibiotic for treating MRSA, KIMYRSA, now commercially available

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Morristown, NJ pharmaceutical company, Melinta Therapeutics announced this week that their lipoglycopeptide antibiotic, KIMYRSA™ (oritavancin), is now commercially...