Reply #3: Here is another story- I saw this on CNN today

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but this is a story from May.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/19/lariam/index.html


Military's use of malaria drug in question

Pentagon studies Lariam's side effects after soldiers' suicides
From Maria Fleet and Jonathan Mann
CNN
Thursday, May 20, 2004 Posted: 12:27 PM EDT (1627 GMT)

U.S. troops have been issued the anti-malaria drug Lariam, which can have severe side effects.

(CNN) -- U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Bill Howell began taking Lariam before going to Iraq in 2003. In March, three weeks after returning home, Howell fatally shot himself in his front yard.

Sgt. 1st Class Rigoberto Nieves also took the anti-malarial medication during his tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2002. Two days after coming home, he killed his wife and himself.

Although grieving families and some experts suspect a link between Lariam and the deaths, the Pentagon said it isn't sure. And until its conclusion of a study into the matter, the Defense Department said it intends to hand out the drug to U.S. military service personnel in some regions where malaria is a threat.

"The combination of the anecdotal reports and the perceptions have led me to conclude that we need to perform a study to ... see if there are the adverse outcomes that some believe there might be," said Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.

There is no timeline for the probe, Winkenwerder said, but he has requested its completion as soon as possible

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