Levamisole, an animal deworming drug that is also often found in cocaine and heroin, can cause infectious diseases and skin lesions, sending users to emergency departments and worse. X.

Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug levamisole could be the culprit in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles. The drug, used to deworm cattle, pigs and sheep, can rot the ...

In a case report from the Netherlands, a patient's symptoms were caused by levamisole-contaminated cocaine. Contamination with levamisole is not uncommon: The DEA reports that up to 83 percent of ...

Levamisole poisoning can cause skin lesions and discolouration and rotting of the skin when blood cells rupture, particularly in extremities such as the ears, nose and fingers.

"Levamisole-induced vasculitis presents as retiform purpuric lesions that become necrotic, as compared with palpable purpura or Wegener's granulomatosis-like lesions in pure cocaine-induced ...

The drug is being cut with Levamisole, a power livestock de-wormer and these graphic photographs prove what damage it is doing to ... A 42-year-old woman was admitted with huge skin lesions ...

Basically, you use the kit to reproduce the same chemical/enzyme reaction in two vials right next to each other. One is a test vial for your sample (powder cocaine, crack, or any other substances ...

Levamisole poisoning can cause skin lesions and discolouration and rotting of the skin when blood cells rupture, particularly in extremities such as the ears, nose and fingers.

Levamisole poisoning can cause skin lesions and discolouration and rotting of the skin when blood cells rupture, particularly in extremities such as the ears, nose and fingers.

Although other testing has suggested levamisole is in street cocaine at levels too low to affect most users, among some unlucky addicts it can rot the skin and also cause a serious drop in their ...

Fears have been sparked by a report suggesting huge amounts of the A-class drug cocaine has been laced with de-worming chemicals which could rot users faces away.