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Why Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine Could Work for Hantavirus

1.6KViews Published: May 8, 2026
By Jacqueline 2 Comments

Why Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine Could Work for Hantavirus
A micrographic study of liver tissue from a hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) patient is seen in this photo obtained by Reuters, in 2017 [CDC Handout] (source). Text below by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
The World Health Organization (WHO) just went on record to claim that ivermectin is “not an effective treatment for hantavirus,” fully dismissing the large body of research suggesting the opposite is likely true.

Hantavirus is an RNA virus. Ivermectin has documented antiviral activity across several RNA viruses in the literature. A serious health body would say “we are looking into it.” A captured and corrupt one demands you to stop asking and start complying.-@goddek https://t.co/2kCTTHLRZQ

— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) May 8, 2026

However, as the WHO downplays ivermectin for hantavirus, the underlying science and preclinical data tell a very different story!

It is no surprise that Bill Gates is now the WHO’s top funder and 13 hantavirus vaccines and gene therapies are under development.

Why Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine Could Work for Hantavirus
Note: Gate’s Foundation pledged US$ 750 million to set up Gavi in 1999. Bill Gates is a key Gavi partner in vaccine market shaping. (source)
Why Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine Could Work for Hantavirus

This rapid dismissal of ivermectin –which is “safer than a sugar pill”, cheap, and widely available –follows a now-familiar pattern.

When health authorities immediately reject repurposed medicines with plausible mechanisms and real-world data against RNA viruses in favor of experimental “vaccines”, it often means that the opposite is true.

We are seeing this play out with the dilemma of a rodent infested ship with hantavirus in the Atlantic Ocean where the WHO had 147 passengers locked down without access to early treatment kits.

Evidence for ivermectin and chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine against hantavirus:

1. Ivermectin’s Strong Track Record Against RNA Viruses

Since the early 2010s, researchers have documented ivermectin’s broad-spectrum antiviral activity against a wide range of RNA viruses, including Marburg, dengue, Zika, West Nile, yellow fever, chikungunya, influenza, HIV, and SARS-CoV-2. These antiviral effects are summarized across dozens of studies in a 2020 systematic review by Heidary et al.

Hantaviruses are also RNA viruses with host cell machinery and intracellular transport pathways that ivermectin is known to disrupt.

In addition, ivermectin interferes with viral replication and assembly processes inside the cell, and exerts anti-inflammatory effects that could blunt the vascular leakage and lung injury characteristic of severe hantavirus disease.

This is the key point: ivermectin does not need to be “hantavirus-specific” to be effective. Its antiviral activity targets cellular mechanisms that many RNA viruses, including hantaviruses, depend on.

Given these facts, ivermectin exerts a degree of anti-hantavirus activity and warrants serious investigation, not dismissal.

Why Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine Could Work for Hantavirus

2. Compelling Evidence for Hydroxychloroquine Use in Hantavirus

A 2021 peer-reviewed study in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology directly evaluated chloroquine against multiple hantaviruses, including the Andes virus — the most clinically relevant strain and the one implicated in the recent cruise ship outbreak.

The key finding comes from the Andes virus model:

In the gold-standard Syrian hamster model of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (which closely mimics severe human disease), chloroquine produced a striking survival benefit. When administered continuously before infection:

• 60% of treated animals survived to 26 days

• 100% of untreated controls died within ~14 days

And when treatment was started after infection, survival improved and time to death was significantly delayed — demonstrating both prophylactic and therapeutic potential.

Supporting this, chloroquine also showed strong antiviral activity in vitro across multiple hantavirus species, inhibiting replication at concentrations far below toxic levels.

Hydroxychloroquine, the safer and more commonly used human derivative, shares the same core mechanisms. It raises pH to block viral entry. It acts as a zinc ionophore that facilitates intracellular zinc accumulation (which inhibits viral RNA activity), and exerts immunomodulatory effects that may reduce vascular leakage and inflammation associated with severe hantavirus disease.

Taken together, the data show a clear, consistent pattern of inhibiting hantavirus replication and meaningfully improving survival in a lethal Andes virus model.

Quercetin is a natural form of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) that anyone can make at home:  Easy DIY Quercetin/Quinine Water Recipe: A Cold & Flu Remedy

Ignore the new plandemic. What worked before, still works! Do not comply.

Conclusion Regarding Hantavirus

Both drugs likely attack key steps in the hantavirus life cycle and the body’s harmful over-reaction to infection:

Hydroxychloroquine (and chloroquine):

• Raises the pH inside cells, blocking hantavirus entry. Hantaviruses depend on acidic conditions in these compartments to release their genetic material.

• Acts as a zinc ionophore, facilitating the entry of zinc ions into cells and inhibiting the RNA polymerase enzyme that hantaviruses requires for replicating their genetic material (a mechanism well-documented against other RNA viruses).

• Helps modulate the immune system to reduce dangerous inflammation and vascular leakage that drive severe disease.

Ivermectin:

• Inhibits the virus’s ability to hijack host cell machinery and suppress antiviral defenses.

• Interferes with viral replication and assembly.

• Reduces excessive inflammation that contributes to lung damage.

These mechanisms work together: hydroxychloroquine primarily blocks early viral entry, while ivermectin targets later intracellular replication and inflammation. 

The science here is far stronger than the official “nothing to see here” narrative suggests.

A Medical School Suggests Adding 4 Specific Vitamins:

The East Virginia School of Medicine created a specific protocol in 2021 to support an acute viral infection or prevent infection beforehand. This post gives the exact dosages:

Medical School’s COVID-19 Management Protocol Using 4 Vitamins

Other Resources:

Getting Ready for Marburg – The Next Plandemic?

Dr. Mercola: Nebulized Peroxide, the Single Most Effective Early Strategy

Easy DIY Quercetin/Quinine Water Recipe: A Cold & Flu Remedy 

Anything Natural That Can Kill the Bubonic Plague Pathogen?

Methylene Blue Zaps Covid-19, HIV, Ebola, Dengue, etc: A Protocol

Note: I also write about a lot of other science-supported protocols (all the way from bird flu, smallpox, reducing vaccine side-effects and various cancer protocols… to peripheral neuropathy, candida, leaky gut, cold sores, and toe nail fungus and more) here on DRAH: https://deeprootsathome.com/?s=protocol … And don’t forget to use the search bar right at the top of each page for specific topics.

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