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...Next to girls," says Colonel Spurgeon Neel Jr., chief medical officer of the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Viet Nam, "the thing that American troops in Viet Nam talk about most is malaria." The malaria casualty count has been rising sharply as U.S. forces expand their efforts in the very parts of the country where the disease is rampant (TIME...
Through the first nine months of this year, the malaria attack rate among U.S. forces was only 30 per 1,000 men per year (as contrasted with the World...
V.C.s' Mutual Aid. The mosquito-borne malaria parasite of Viet Nam jungles shares its territory with the Viet Cong. In fact, they support each other. The Viet Cong have given the disease a free hand by preventing anti-mosquito spraying. And malaria has helped the V.C. by attacking newly arrived U.S troops who do not share the partial immunity of men who have had malaria and recovered. It has become a truism among U.S. troops that "if you go out and catch Viet Cong, you'll also catch malaria...
...October, and the total for November will probably be much higher. Hundreds of victims have already been evacuated to military hospitals around the Pacific because the armed forces routinely evacuate any man who is not expected to be able to return to duty within 30 days, and falciparum-malaria treatment and convalescence take from five to eight weeks...
Back to Quinine. Medically, the most disturbing aspect of malaria in Viet Nam is the appearance of falciparum parasites that are resistant to chloroquine, which was hailed only a few years ago as the almost perfect antimalarial drug. U.S. servicemen take a weekly prophylactic tablet containing 300 mg. of chloroquine and 45 mg. of another antimalarial known as primaquine. If they develop malaria despite this, they are likely to be infected by a resistant strain of parasites. If massive doses of chloroquine fail to bring the fever down within a few hours, the medics may switch to pyrimethamine (Daraprim), which...