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Ivermectin, originally discovered in Japan in the late 1970s, gained approval for human use in the 1980s and became widely used as a veterinary and human parasite treatment. It is on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines and gained FDA approval as an anti-parasitic agent. In 2015, the developers of ivermectin received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for its effectiveness.