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None of the 9 SF soldiers had significant life reverses unless coming home is considered life reverses.

One of them, whom I won't name here, found somebody's Size 14 Air Jordans under his marriage bed -- figuratively speaking. Normally an SF guy can dissociate in a situation like that and reason it out to the point that he knows he's going to be laughing with his buddies about it in a year. But not everyone can, all the time.

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I report, y'all in the thread decide.

Mefloquine References in the medical press. Just to add to the joy, Africa now has produced a mefloquine-resistant strain of plamodium falciparum. This reference is a collection of clinical reports, mostly of mefloquine toxicity of one type or another, and applied research, indicating some of the possible molecular-level causes for such. Interesting stuff. Lay people can generally understand the clinical reports (maybe with an occasional nose-in to the medical dictionary) but for a lot of the lab stuff, you had best have your science chops honed to college-frosh level.
Current Prophylaxis for malaria; this has a bit of "on the one hand... on the other hand..." to it. What it illustrates to me is the difficulty that even civilian practitioners are having balancing effectiveness vs. risk on prophylactic medicines. There are no zero-risk options.
A Canadian "Myths and Facts" document, curiously hosted in Australia, and promoting use of mefloquine.
Advice for GPs in Britain. Some good links here, interesting information. NB that one of the links says "mefloquine is contraindicated in airline pilots" or words to that effect. This is not due to mefloquine psychosis, but because of another side effect that is insidiously dangerous to aviators, to wit, vertigo.

I tried to pick a mixed bag of foreign and US links rather than link to "all CDC all the time." All should be able to see that while there is definitely substance to the side effect story, that isn't the only side to the story.

About 200 million people will sicken with malaria in 2004 and about 2 million of them will die. Most of these victims are young people and children in Africa, but there are a few Americans on the list every year.

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