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Avermectins are used to treat parasitic diseases, such as river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, affecting an estimated 150 million people worldwide.

• However, avermectins were initially developed in farm animals, against intestinal, cutaneous and pulmonary parasites.
• Research on avermectins has been conducted over the past three decades at INRA / ENVT and continued at TOXALIM. In particular, they permit to optimize the use of such drugs in livestock, also contributing to improving its use in humans.

Thus, the history of these drugs illustrates the "One health" concept : animal and human"