RECOMMENDED PREVENTIVE COUNTERMEASURES FOR TROOPS

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Subject: RECOMMENDED PREVENTIVE COUNTERMEASURES FOR TROOPS               

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         SGPS-PSP                                              7 Aug 90



         MIEMORANDUM 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-d) 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 (lpre-e=osure 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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