19-year-old who took 1200 mg of Ivermectin Survives

A 19-year-old Black African girl took 400 tablets of 3 mg ivermectin. The Journal of Medical Case Reports published her case in April 2023. Ivermectin is used to prevent the complications of river blindness in Africa. It is caused by a worm called Onchocerca volvulus.  The disease is called river blindness because the blackfly that…