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A disease caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus
The is an acute inflammatory syndrome that can follow microfilaricidal antiparasitic therapy, classically after for but also reported after , and other agents; it typically appears within hours to sev...
Ivermectin has been deployed for decades in coordinated mass‑drug‑administration (MDA) campaigns primarily to control and, in some settings, eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic fi...
Short-term side effects after a standard dose of ivermectin are usually mild and transient—most commonly itch, rash, fever, headache and gastrointestinal upset within the first few days following trea...
Clinical and pharmacovigilance data indicate that ivermectin is rarely linked to clinically meaningful renal injury in humans, but specific risk factors appear to increase the likelihood of transient ...