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Common gout medications can kill elephantiasis-causing parasites

Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) Treatment with two common FDA-approved gout medications have been found to cause rapid death to the parasites that cause elephantiasis. Researchers at the Uniformed Services University (USU) have discovered that sulfinpyrazone and probenecid, both used regularly for gout, have a lethal effect in vitro on the parasitic worms that...