Ivermectin is used routinely to treat filariasis, river blindness, scabies and several other diseases.

Ivermectin, a workhorse antiparasitic drug, is currently used to treat lymphatic filariasis, which causes elephantiasis, and onchocerciasis, which causes river blindness.

Ivermectin is already used to kill parasitic worms, which affect a third of the world's population and cause illnesses including river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.