The drug ivermectin is one example. It’s gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but is not approved to treat any cancer ...

A hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship that has left three people dead is veering into the fringe. Online, a growing number of social media users are floating ivermectin as a possible ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reiterated a warning against the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment amid growing reports of individuals taking the drug often used to treat parasitic ...

Claims that ivermectin could be used to treat hantavirus have been greatly exaggerated.

After being officially reprimanded for treating COVID-19 without permission in Texas, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden has started selling an unproven horse dewormer to treat hantavirus. Bowden responded to ...

When a stranger from Spain called Cassidy Rist in her first months at Virginia Tech, she almost didn't take the meeting. The caller was Carlos Chaccour, a physician at the University of Navarra who ...

Some prominent Republicans are promoting ivermectin again as concerns mount over the hantavirus outbreak that was reported on a cruise ship earlier this month. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many right ...

Hantaviruses have a genome made of RNA, but there is no evidence that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin would work on a hantavirus infection, as suggested in a widely shared X post that misrepresents ...