> So apparently this medicine is used for treating parasitic worm infections, which I imagine is a vanishingly small market in the United States. It's incredib

> So apparently this medicine is used for treating parasitic worm infections, which I imagine is a vanishingly small market in the United States. It's incredibly common in veterinary medicine in the US. Veterinary pharmaceuticals are oftentimes (though not always) manufactured in the same plants. Sometimes the inactive ingredients are not safe for human consumption, so that doesn't mean that you can always just take veterinary drugs safely, but sometimes (particularly in the case of antibiotics), they are literally manufactured on the same lines, and are simply packaged and distributed differently. Given the massive difference in price between albendazole for humans and albendazole for animals, I'm willing to bet that this is another attempt at market segmentation (which we already know is rampant in the US pharmaceutical industry - that's how they make their global profits!), rather than a real necessity of the scale.