"The Media laughed and said Ivermectin was ONLY for horses and cows? THEY KNEW it was made for people since 1987," begins a May 7, 2025 Facebook post.
It goes on to list 12 uses for ivermectin to treat everything from Covid-19 to cancer.
The image shows an injectable version of ivermectin intended for cows and swine, implying that people should purchase the product in its formulation for animals -- a notion explicitly rejected by pharmacists (archived here).
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Screenshot of a Facebook post taken May 13, 2025
Canadians posted the same text in French, while AFP identified other posts spreading versions of the claim in Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch, Bosnian, Greek, Czech and German.
Keyword searches revealed the identical text has been shared across social networks since at least January 2025, around the time that actor Mel Gibson made unproven claims about ivermectin curing cancer on Joe Rogan's popular podcast.
This follows years of misinformation about the drug, particularly among those skeptical of the mRNA vaccines developed to protect against Covid-19 (archived here). The false belief in positive off-label uses for ivermectin triggered legislative moves in several US states to allow access to the drug without a prescription.
In Canada, ivermectin is only approved for use by humans to treat "parasitic infections (oral) and rosacea (topical)" (archived here).
Similarly, in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration approved ivermectin tablets "to treat some...
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