{"id":21378,"date":"2010-12-02T02:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21378"},"modified":"2010-12-03T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T04:08:23","slug":"mefloquine-guantanamo-and-truthout-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21378","title":{"rendered":"Mefloquine, Guantanamo and TruthOut.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that the newest story going around is a claim that we used Mefloquine on the detainees as a experiment of the side effects along with other reasons. TruthOut<\/a> is even going to calling this “Pharmacologic Waterboarding”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\nArmy Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman, who was stationed at Guantanamo at the time of the suicides in 2006, and has presented evidence that demonstrates the three detainees could not have died by hanging themselves, noticed in the detainees’ medical files that they were given mefloquine. Hickman has been investigating the circumstances behind the detainees’ deaths for nearly four years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is what they are claiming is their smoking gun, a document <\/a> (Page 18) that listed that all inmates that come in receive a total of 1250 mg of Mefloquine in a 12 hour period. All before they were tested for it. But I did a little digging found this that was published in 1994<\/a> giving out the exact dose in the exact same way with positive results. So there is no question about it does work.<\/p>\n

Now here is were it gets interesting. Truthout is claiming that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated about Mefloquine.<\/p>\n

Mefloquine should only be used when other standard drugs were not available, as it “is associated with a higher rate of severe neuropsychiatric reactions when used at treatment doses.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which they give a link that is dead, but the link that I found to the CDC states a very counter message<\/a> under the info for Mefloquine. <\/p>\n

Now we get into the side affects Mefloquine. The info does say that anyone with certain psychiatric conditions should not take this drug. There has been a case studies and it does happen<\/a>.
\nBut does the risk out way the benefits. Also if this is such a great drug, why do we see Doxycycline being used for overseas troops rather then Mefloquine. It seems that it was stopped being used as of 2005. But a Document made in 2009 <\/a>still has left it a option if the person cannot take Doxycycline and does not have any contraindications to the drug. <\/p>\n

But according to TruthOut we never give Mefloquine to our soldiers. <\/p>\n

\nAnother example of how the DoD approached malaria treatment differently for other subjects is in the case of Army Rangers who returned from malarial areas of Afghanistan between June and September 2002 and were infected with the disease at an attack rate of 52.4 cases per 1,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

However, the Rangers did not receive mass presumptive treatment of mefloquine. They were given other standard drugs after laboratory tests, according to documents obtained by Truthout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But just a thought to throw out here, if a person has lived in a area where for the most part there are no major epidemics like the ones we are seeing in Haiti against someone who lives in the exact opposite I would imagine that the treatment would be different and more aggressive for the person that has not had any previous vaccinations before going to that area. We cannot assume that there is only a generic version of Malaria and it has never changed to suit to the demands of each environment that each person may have come from. <\/p>\n

Now what is the end result? Was there a better way of doing this? I cannot say with total assertion that it was but I do not see it as a secret lab to conduct SS like medical experiments<\/a> on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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