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You're a physician IIRC, and can easily get doxycycline. What about the unprivileged grunts? Also is this oral or does it require shots?

Oral doxy 200 mg every day for prophylaxis. If you are close friends with just about any kind of doctor or dentist (possibly even a vetinarian, you'd have to be careful of human versus animal dose tho) they should be willing to give you an RX for Doxy just to put your mind at ease.

I've never done a web search on foreign pharmaceutical sales web sites, but it may be worth a little research...

Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic synthetically derived from oxytetracycline and is available as doxycycline monohydrate; doxycycline hyclate; doxycycline hydrochloride hemiethanolate hemihydrate; and doxycycline calcium for oral administration.

BRAND NAMES: Asidoxyn; Azudoxat; Bactidox; Banndoclin; Basedillin; Bassado; Biocolyn; Biodoxi; Bronmycin; Cendox; Cloran; Cyclidox; Dagracycline; Deoxymykoin; Doinmycin; Doryx; Dosil; Dotur; Doxaciclin; Doxalin; Doxat; Doximed; Doximycin; Doxin; Doxine; Doxi-Sergo; Doxt; Doxy; Doxy-1; Doxy-100; Doxychel; Doxyclin; Doxycline; Doxycycline; Doxycycline Hyclate; Doxycycline Monohydrate; Doxylag; Doxylin; Doxymycin; Dumoxin; Duracyclin; Esdoxin; Gewacyclin; Granudoxy; Ibimycin; Idocyklin; Interdoxin; Lexcycline; Lydox; Magdrin; Medomycin; Miraclin; Monocin; Monodox; Paldomycin; Probracin; Radox; Remycin; Roximycin; Servidoxyne; Siadocin; Siclidon; Sigadoxin; Supracyclin; Tenutan; Tetradox; Texomycin; Tolexine; Torymycin; Tsurupioxin; Unidox; Unidoxy; Vibrabiotic; Vibradox; Vibracina; Vibramicina; Vibramycin; Vibramycin Calcium; Vibramycin Hyclate; Vibramycin Monohydrate; Vibramycin-N; Vibramycine; Vibra-S; Vibra-Tabs; Vibraveineuse; Vibravends; Vibravenos; Vibravenos SF; Viradoxyl-N; Vivocycline; Wanmycin; Withamycin; Xidox; Zadorin
(Foreign brand names outside U.S. in italics)

When not to take doxycycline

Do not take doxycycline on an empty stomach, it may cause a stomach upset.

Doxycycline interferes with the formation of the teeth in children (it colours them), so expectant and nursing mothers must not take doxycycline.

Children cannot take doxycycline before their adult teeth have come out. Once they have formed and have grown, the risk disappears.

Do not take doxycycline if you are going to be exposed to strong sunlight, such as on the beach or ski-ing. Doxycycline increases the sensitivity of the skin to the sun's rays. If you must take doxycycline, because no other treatment is available, be sure to protect yourself from the sun.

There has been anedoctal evidence (this means that it does not come from a well controlled clinical study, but from isolated cases) that after prolonged use of 10 years or more, [this must be an incredibly safe drug if patients take it 10 years or more!---proud2brc] doxycycline therapy can cause the lower lip to swell and become black and blue. After stopping doxycycline, the lip becomes normal. It is speculated that this sensitivity may be caused or aggravated by exposure to sunlight.