
Under-eye bags, fingernail growth, sneezing
Dr Karl Podcast
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Ivar Micton
ivomectan iva. comes from a bacterium in only one place in the whole world, the soil in a gulf on the south east coast of the island of honshu and japan. In 19 70, scientists were looking for drugs to fight bacteria, drugs to figt parasites, which affect hundreds of millions of people in the poor countries near the tropics. And somebody scooped with a little teaspoon, some soil, and that turned out to make eight different chemicals. Fof bacteria made eight different chemicals which would afit parasites. And they modified and joined two of them together to make overmictem. We've looked everywhere else, l a gulf in the
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