While cooking dinner for my valentine, she had an old Animal Planet episode of "Monsters Inside Me" on the TV. I can hear the TV in background and hear that a man, Geza Teleki, has contracted "River Blindness" in the early 80's while in Africa. Doctors in the USA had been unable to figure out the illness until he went to see a specialist. He was cured after living with pain for over 4 years in just 7 days using Ivermectin''. The episode said that nobody had used Ivermectin before on a human and he was told it was a long-shot. Do we have any older cases of Ivermectin use in humans before ''1985'??
I've included a brief YouTube clip which doesn't mention Ivermectin or get to the end. But it is the same episode I saw on TV earlier. Geza died in 2014 so we can't ask him….I also dropped and archived an article that goes into some medical detail, but it mentions this episode and the treatment using Ivermectin. He was treated by a Dr. Martin Wolfe (sp?) who is an expert in Tropical Medicine at the George Washington University (at the time of the episode).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVF9EnZFnw
https://onchocerciasispreventionortreatment.weebly.com/what-is-river-blindness.html