The Upper Austria. Health holding has reports circulating on social media about the fatal outcome of ivermectin poisoning in an Upper Austrian. Denied family. Rather, the family members in the hospital justified their severe corona disease by saying that they had not taken enough of the anti-worm drug. Two members of the family died and two survived the infection.
The spokeswoman for the health holding Jutta Oberweger announced on APA request on Thursday that the case had already happened a week and a half ago in the Rohrbach hospital in Mühlviertel. At that time, the father and father-in-law were treated in the intensive care unit, the mother and son of the family in the normal ward for Covid-19.
The father-in-law died very quickly, the father a little later. The mother and son survived. The hospital has meanwhile been able to discharge them. During the treatment, the patients stated that they had just taken too little ivermectin, so it did not help against Covid-19.
Ivermectin is not approved for the treatment of Covid-19, rather numerous institutes, institutions such as the WHO and experts warn against taking the worming agent for Covid-19. On Wednesday, the manufacturer also reported and spoke out clearly against the use. Ivermectin can be toxic if overdosed. Poisoning is said to have occurred in Austria as well.