All you Vietnam vets out there. Isn’t this Chloroquine the same small white pill for malaria we all took every day while in country? If yes, why would they say they are not sure if it is safe to take. Help me on this one Brothers.
Yes, chloroquine was the 200 mg pill back then. The newer version, hydroxychloroquine, is what is showing excellent results with low to no side effects ... except killing virons is a side effect and it is doing that.
I sure remember the white pill...and hated the medics making us take it.
mosaicwolf wrote: “All you Vietnam vets out there. Isn’t this Chloroquine the same small white pill for malaria we all took every day while in country? If yes, why would they say they are not sure if it is safe to take. Help me on this one Brothers.”
Missed Vietnam but when I was in Korea in the early seventies, there was a bottle of those Chloroquine pills on the mess hall table right next to the salt shakers.
I heard the part of the press conference where the doc responded to whether it was safe to take. Essentially he said it’s not been tested with all the other parts of the ‘drug cocktail’. That isn’t the same thing as saying it’s unsafe.
As I remember, the anti-malaria pill that we took each month was called chloroquine-primiquine. Don't know what the "primiquine" was. ( My spelling may be incorrect ) Aside from loose stools, I don't recall any side effects.