Feed Stores: Livestock Ivermectin Flying Off Shelves For Unapproved Human Use

Feed stores around the country are discouraging shoppers from buying ivermectin formulated for livestock, for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. But despite their strictly worded warnings, they’re finding it’s difficult to keep the products made for horses, cows, sheep, and other animals in stock, workers at retailers specializing in animal products told The Epoch Times. The reason is ivermectin formulated for humans seems to be increasingly difficult to obtain. Across social media platforms, it’s easy to find flurries of requests for advice about how and where to find a doctor willing to prescribe it and pharmacies willing to fill those prescriptions. As more people turn to feed stores to obtain ivermectin, some retailers have resorted to asking shoppers to show pictures of themselves with their animals as evidence they need ivermectin for use with livestock. The struggle stems from the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug …  » Read full article