By Admin1 (admin) on Thursday, October 24, 2002 - 7:53 am: Edit Post |
The Guardian says Lariam is not a benign drug
One of the ironies of the current inquiry into the deaths at Fort Bragg is that mefloquine was originally developed by US Army scientists in 1971. Walter Reed passed the compound to Roche for development and with the help of the World Health Organisation trials were carried out on 562 Peace Corps volunteers. That study - led by Hans Lobel, a medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control - observed "no serious adverse reactions".Read the story at: