~~Great news! (And great find, thank-you!) If you haven't already, would you post the article to /r/covid19 and/or /r/coronavirus?~~ Don't repost until we have corroboration, please!

Hmmm: Need to find the EU article. IMO it's suspicious that "ivermectin" doesn't appear in the EU quotes.

I cannot find corroboration for this article. IT MAY BE BOGUS!

Please help me find an EU or other credible source. This article is out of Argentina.

#Ivermectin: the European Union approved the use of veterinary drugs in humans

The decision of the European Commission is to face the shortage of certain drugs authorized for human consumption, due to the effects of COVID-19.

Europe is experiencing a critical moment at the health level due to the already known effects of the pandemic generated by COVID-19,

Only between Spain and Italy there are more than 300,000 infected, and with 16,353 and 18,279 confirmed deaths to date.

In this context, the European demand for medicines approved for human consumption has increased exponentially in recent months and there are already shortages.

For this reason, the crisis committee of the European Commission decided to approve the use of veterinary drugs in humans.

"In the event of a critical shortage of essential medicines authorized for human use, the use of equivalent medicines authorized for veterinary use that have the same active ingredients, dosage and dosage form must also be weighed," the Commission reported.

The decision of the European Union comes just when a scientific investigation of the doctor Kylie Wagstaff of the Biomedicine Discovery Institute of the University of Monash in Melbourne (Australia), showed that the antiparasitic medicine ivermectin (sold in almost all the veterinarians of Argentina and the world), kills the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in 48 hours.

“The substitution must always be carefully evaluated and authorized by the competent national authority, taking into account the possible specific characteristics of the veterinary sector. Particular attention must be paid to ensure adequate dosing and additional reporting of adverse reactions,” warned the European Commission.

Finally, the statement states that "in the event that the usual sources are exhausted, essential medicines must be allowed to come from outside the EU or the EEA, under the supervision of the national authorities or the European Medicines Agency."

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This is the closest I could find to corroboration, and it does NOT corroborate the article.

Update: In June 2020, EMA added nine additional active substances (chloroquine, darunavir, emtricitabine-tenofovir, filgrastim, ivermectin, nitric oxide, oseltamivir, prednisone and ritonavir) which are being investigated as potential treatments for COVID-19, and for which there are multiple marketing authorisation holders in the EEA.

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It is also adding COVID-19-related search terms to its regular literature searches for six active substance groups (azithromycin, ciclosporin, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, ribavirin and prednisolone) that were already included in the service.

COVID-19-related literature searches commenced on 1 June 2020 in EMBASE, and will commence on 1 July 2020 in EBSCO.

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