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- Australian scientists have found that a common anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin killed SARS-CoV-2 virus.
- The research team made up of Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) and the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity in Australia.
- It is an anti-parasitic drug that has also been shown to be effective in vitro against a broad range of viruses including HIV, dengue, influenza and Zika virus.
- It is currently used as a treatment for strongyloidiasis, a parasitic disease caused by roundworms.
- It was published in the journal Antiviral Research.
- Ivermectin was first developed in 1975 and came into medical use in 1981.
- It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.
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