A Tribute to Ivermectin

Ivermectin
Ivermectin
Ivermectin is wonderful medicine
Ivermectin

Isolated from the soil of Japan
The avermectin bacterium
Dispatched those worms every one
For our pets since 1981 is

Ivermectin
Ivermectin
Ivermectin is wonderful medicine
Ivermectin

Riverblindness in the sub-Sahara
Elders blind, the children led them around
Ivermectin given to them all
Used by humans since ’87 is

Ivermectin
Ivermectin
Ivermectin is wonderful medicine
Ivermectin

The world’s first endectocide
Zapping parasites left and right
Safe in mammals of every stripe
Our wonder drug – and let’s recite, oh,

Ivermectin
Ivermectin

It’s inventors, Campbell and Omura
Blessed by millions for their wonder drug
By the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015 for

Ivermectin
Ivermectin

The greatest beneficial impact
On the health and well-being of humanity
Are penicillin, aspirin, and

Ivermectin
Ivermectin

When covid raged through India
People dying needing canned oxygen
Ivermectin given and — a-ha!
The covid wave crushed with medicine called

Ivermectin
Ivermectin

The greatest beneficial impact
On the health and well-being of humanity
Are penicillin, aspirin, and

Ivermectin
Ivermectin
Ivermectin’s an essential medicine
Ivermectin is a wonderful medicine
Ivermectin
Ivermectin