MEDICAL CHEMICAL DEFENSE FOR TROOPS DEPLOYED TO SAUDI ARABIA

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       SGPS-PSP                                              7 Aug 90




       MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD




       SUBJECT: Recommended Preventive Countermeasures for Troops

       Deploying to the Middle East



       1. Following discussions with the FORSCOM Surgeon's Office and

       the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, the Preventive

       and Military Medicine Consultants Division, OTSG, recommended

       the following immunizations and chemoprophylaxis measures for

       troops deploying to the Middle East.

            MENINGOCOCCAL (A.C.Y. W135) - For all troops not receiving

       the quadrivalent vaccine within the last 5 years.

            TETANUS-DIPHTHERIA (T-dl TOXOID - For all troops not

       receiving the T-d toxoid within the last 10 years.

            TYPHOID - For all troops not receiving the typhoid vaccine

       within the last 3 years.

            IMMUNE GLOBULIN (pre-exposure prophylaxis) - all personnel

       should receive 5cc (this assumes the length of stay is greater

       than 3 months). If certain the length of stay is 3 months or

       less than give 2cc.

            CHLOROOUINE PROPHYLAXIS - All troops should deploy on

       chloroquine prophylaxis. If medically contraindicated, daily
       doxycycline should be taken for up to 4 weeks, mefloquine can

       also be used as a substitute. Malaria is only endemic in

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