Monash scientists have shown that an anti-parasitic drug already available around the world can kill the virus within 48 hours.
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.
Scientists from the Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) showed that a single dose of the drug, Ivermectin, could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture.
The next steps are to determine the correct human dosage – ensuring the doses shown to effectively treat the virus in vitro are safe levels for humans.
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