article_snippet.sent: Mefloquin is used to treat malaria and was developed by Army researchers towards the end of the Vietnam War.
article_snippet.sent: Mefloquin gained support among the fighting forces because Mefloquin works in areas where mosquitoes developed resistance to an earlier treatment, chloroquine, and requires just one tablet a week, not the daily dose needed with other medications.
article_snippet.sent: the amount of Mefloquine Army prescribes, even as Army sent thousands more soldiers to malaria-prone Afghanistan.
article_snippet.sent: Mefloquine is a zombie drug.
article_snippet.sent: Mefloquine's dangerous, and Mefloquine should have been killed off years ago,' said Dr. Remington Nevin, an epidemiologist and Army major who has published research that he said showed a zombie drug can be potentially toxic to the brain.