[cyborg]

More? I was on another thread last night. I am beginning to wonder if the drug was good to begin with.

[Snake Eater]

Chloroquine is the traditional prophylaxis against malaria. The problem is, chloroquine-resistant malaria exists across much of Africa. WHO has been charting this and has maps available. I have to wonder if someone neglected to take this into account.

[MudPuppy]

I thought once you got malaria you always had it?

Washington Times
September 9, 2003
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Marines Got Malaria On Liberia Mission

Troops evacuated for treatment

By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times

A dozen Marines who participated in peacekeeping in Liberia last month have been diagnosed with malaria, while another 21 military personnel from their unit are exhibiting symptoms for the mosquito-borne disease, military officials said yesterday.

Of the 33 - 32 Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman - two were sent to a military hospital in Germany and the other 31 flown to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. All are on antibiotics that kill the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

"They will be cured of malaria," said Navy Capt. Gregory Martin, a physician specializing in infectious diseases at Bethesda.