by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 16, 2016
The head of the Canadian Armed Forces says the military is reassessing the use of an anti-malarial drug that can cause serious psychiatric side-effects now that Health Canada agrees the brain damage associated with mefloquine can be permanent. Whether to continue...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 16, 2016
Former Canadian Airborne soldier Clayton Matchee lives in a North Battleford home afflicted with brain damage from a suicide attempt — a desperate act after he was charged in the murder of a Somali teenager. That was more than 20 years ago, during Canada’s ill-fated...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 15, 2016
Former soldiers want the Canadian government to hold an inquiry into the effects of mefloquine, a malaria-prevention drug they were obliged to take during the disastrous Somalia mission in the 1990s. Troops were sent on a peace-keeping mission to deal with an...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 15, 2016
Former soldiers want the Canadian government to hold an inquiry into the effects of mefloquine, a malaria-prevention drug they were obliged to take during the disastrous Somalia mission in the 1990s. Troops were sent on a peace-keeping mission to deal with an...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 14, 2016
Somalia, Rwanda and Afghanistan, authorities administered for months mefloquine soldiers. The drug against malaria has devastating effects, some of them, ranging from hallucinations to depression. For a pharmacist that we consulted, it is clear that mefloquine may, in...
