Parallels between Ivermectin and illicit tobacco trade
IVERMECTIN, a Nobel Prize-winning discovery, has turned into a black market drug as dealers try to supply a growing demand.
Japanese microbiologist Satoshi Omura made the discovery in 1975 and with William Campbell jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for the antiparasitic.
The drug is used to treat parasites in animals and in recent weeks was touted as a
