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• n  an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people

• The antimalarial drug chloroquine is no longer broadly effective, and even the newest substitute, mefloquine, is encountering resistance from some strains of the malarial parasite.

• mefloquine hydrochloride
• Larium
• Mephaquine

News & Articles

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• Elite Army units to stop taking anti-malarial drug
  The top doctor for Green Berets and other elite Army commandos has told troops to immediately stop taking mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug found to cause permanent brain damage in rare cases.
  Sept. 22, 2013 - Laramie Boomerang
• Army units ordered to stop taking anti-malarial drug linked to brain damage
  The top doctor for Green Berets and other elite Army commandos has told troops to immediately stop taking mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug found to cause permanent brain damage in rare cases
  Sept. 19, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Peter Schoomaker in ArmyTimes.com
  In areas where doxycycline and mefloquine are equally efficacious in preventing malaria, doxycycline is the drug of choice,Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker said in a memo dated Feb. 2.