Doctors and public health experts warn against ivermectin hantavirus claim
Updated
Updated · Forbes · May 7
Doctors and public health experts warn against ivermectin hantavirus claim
4 articles · Updated · Forbes · May 7
NYU Langone's Dana Mazo said no human data supports it after Mary Talley Bowden's post drew 3.5 million views amid a cruise ship outbreak that killed three people.
WHO, University of Texas Southwestern and University College London clinicians also said there is no clinical evidence ivermectin treats hantavirus, despite online amplification by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The claim follows earlier pandemic-era promotion of ivermectin for Covid, but experts say lab findings on some RNA viruses do not show benefit in humans or against hantavirus specifically.
A deadly virus is spreading person-to-person at sea. Can global health authorities contain it before it reaches land?
As a hantavirus outbreak unfolds, why is a disproven COVID-19 drug being promoted as a potential treatment?
With no approved hantavirus treatment, can AI tracking and supportive care defeat a virus with a 50% fatality rate?