Ivermectin was discovered in Tokyo by two scientist, Satoshi Maura and William Campbell

Ivermectin was discovered in Tokyo by two scientist, Satoshi Maura and William Campbell. Dr. Amora was a golfer and on one of his golf trips. He picked up a sample of soil around here, any scientist foot on the east coast of the Izu peninsula and in the sample of soil was the bacteria when they took her to the lab they found it was able to kill roundworms mice so they isolated the bacteria active compound slightly changed the structure and this new compound. This new drug was a big deal and both doctors Amora and Dr. Campbell won a noble prize for discovering what was so special about ivermectin well scientists are still puzzled by how exactly it works, but it seems to penetrate the nervous system of parasites disabled their neurons, and that would be. Make the parasite disfunction until it dies so in 1988 this drug was used widely in to treat river blindness is a very unpleasant disease caused by warm back in those days. The world health organization had reported that because of river blind is 270,000 people had lost their eyesight, but thanks to Mac and this disease is now on the break of elimination. In fact ivermectin was so great at killing of parasites. It was recognized as being second to penicillin in terms of having the greatest impact on human health and over the past 30 years some 3.7 billion doses of ivermectin were taken by humans.