Archive - March 12, 2015

On August 13, 2013, the  Peace Corps Medical Director addressed the new FDA warnings on the anti-malaria drug,  mefloquine hydrochloride.  His statement was posted on the Peace Corps’s official blog, Passport.  Usually there are no responses to posts on the Passport blog as it usually is informative, but not interactive. For this article, however, PCVs and RPCVsc did comment and those  are important.  To read the article, without the formatting distractions, here is the text to link to: http://passport.peacecorps.gov/2013/08/09/staying-safe-preventing-malaria/ Here is the article,copied and pasted.  The formatting may be distracting. Staying safe, preventing malaria BY PEACE CORPS ON AUGUST 9, 2013 • ( 10 COMMENTS ) By Barry G. Simon, M.D., Peace Corps Medical Director, Office of Medical Services Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration updated its warning label on the anti-malarial drug mefloquine hydrochloride, and there has been a surge in news coverage lately about the side . . .