TERMINAL MALARIA CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS FOR TROOP DEPLOYMEN\T

File: 970107_may96_decls6_0002.txt
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Subject: TERMINAL MALARIA CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS FOR TROOP DEPLOYMEN\T         

Unit: 24TH ID     

Parent Organization: XVIII CORPS 

Box  ID: BX001422

Folder Title: INCOMING DESERT SHIELD OPERATIONAL UPDATES  DOM  MAR  2 OF 5                                    

Document Number:          8

Folder Seq  #:        266








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       AKCFNT# CFNTrOMo ANI)                           FUi<4.;COM, THI@ OFFICF ljknVIr)g:S THE FnLLOWrNG
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       THr Rt;K            OF MALAC?[A TRAiqSMIS4.;T(jN IDAS UNLIKEI.Y.
       4. THE kF('Ot4mFNnATTnN AGAINST THF USE OF TERP41MAL 04ALARIA
       CHF14OP140P@iYLAXIS l@ RASFO UPON THF POLIOWINR, REASnh.'S:
OF SOLiTHFPP4 TRAO AND KUWAIT WERE CnfJSIDEPED
       MALKRIA-FRFF PRIOF? TO ItiF HTAPT OF7 HOSTILITIES.                                                              (0@'LY THE FIVE
       NORTHERN MOST PKOVTNCES TN IRAQ WFRF REPORTED TO HAVE ENDEMIC
       MALARIA.)
             fi .      THF TIME OF THE YEAR THE T140OPS OPERATED IN THESE AREAS WAS
       NOT CONNUCTVF FOR MOSOUTTO BRFFDT6Jr7 NOR MALARIA TRANSMISSION (I.F.t


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       COOLER TEMPERATURES AND nRY SEASr)kt MALARIA SEASON TYPICA.LIY BEGINS
       IN LATF MARCH - EARLY APRIL).
             C.        INTELLIGEP4CE ANO MEDICAL SOURCES HAVE NOT REPR)PTED ANY CASES
       OF MALARIA IN rrko Epws OR TN THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION.
             0.        AS OF THIS DATE, THERE HAVF RFEN NO CASES nF MALAP rA
       DIAGNOSED AMONG U-S- MILITARY PER(SONNEL TIV CC)NJUNCTINIO WITH
       (IPERATION DESFRT SHIFLO/STORM.
       1; .     TN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, SOME INORVIOUALS MAY HAVE OPERATED IN
       MALARIA Ef4DEMIC AFZFAS AND THFSE TNOIVIOUALS WILL REQUIRE TERMINAL
       PROPHYLAxrs.                   THIS WILL BE DETERIOLTNEF) ON A UNIT OR TNGIVTDUAL- BASIS
       BY THE SUPPORTING mFnICAL AUTHORITY.
       6.       BECAUSE OF THE DISRUPTION OF PUBLIC KEALTH SERVICES AN[) THE
       POSSIBLE INCRFASF lt4 MOSGUITO BREFOING SITES RESULTIAIG FROM THE
       HOC,TILITIES9 THF RISK OF-MALARIA TRANSMISSION MAY L@ICREASE IN THE
       FIITURE-            THIS MAY LEAD TO A FUTUF?F -REQUIREMFN-T FOR MALARIA
       PROPtiYLAXTS9 INCLUNTNG TERMINAL PROPHYLAXIS.                                                            EpTriEmrCILCIGICAL
       SEIIZVERLLANCE AND ENTOMOLOGICAL MONTTORINri SHOULD IDENTIFY, IF AND
       WHENT MALARIA FMERGFS TN THESE AREAS.                                                    A NEW MESSAGE WILL BE
       TRANSMITTED IF THFRE rb A CHANGE IN THE CURREPIT PIALARIA



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File Room = may96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-20
Box ID = BX001422
Unit = 24TH ID
Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS
Folder Title = INCOMING DESERT SHIELD OPERATIONAL UPDATES DOM MAR 2 OF 5
Folder Seq # = 266
Subject = TERMINAL MALARIA CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS FOR TROOP DEPL
Document Seq # = 8
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 02-JAN-1997