PREVENTIVE MEDICINE MEASURES FOR THE MID EAST

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Subject: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE MEASURES FOR THE MID EAST                   

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         to Preventive Medicine offices please

       From: J.JACKSON (MDUO078) Delivered: Fri 10-Aug-90 9:25 EDT
     SLlb,]ect: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE MEASURES FOR MID GAST

     Per COL Erdtmann's request, please pass the following information to
     all preventive medicine and related personnel in HSC. It has already
     been transmitted to 7th MEDCOM and FORSCOM.


     INFORMATION FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND IMMUNIZATION PERSONNEL,
     SERVICES. SECTIONS, CLINICS, ETC.:
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     7his is a copy of an MFR we prepared concerning Our consolidated
     recommendations for troops deploying to the Middle Eastern Area
     of Operation. It is being provide for HSC's retransmission to
     installation Preventive Medicine Services so they can respond to
     inquiries to ongoing deployments and the preparation of PROFIS
     filler personnel at their facilities.
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     SGPS-PSP                                                7 Aug 90
     MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD


     i@ness RETURN for more ...





                      10-AUS-1990 13:19:30                                       NEWM@
       SUBJECT: Recommended Preventive Countermeasures for Troops
       Deploying to the Middle East
       1. Following discussions with the FORSCOM SLirgeon'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.
            MENINSOCOCCAL (A, C, y, W135) - For all troops not receiving
       the quadrivalent vaccine within the last 5 years.
            TETANUS-DIPHTHERIA (T-d) TQXGID - For all troops not
iving the T-d toxoid within the last 10 years.
            TYPHOID - For all troops not receiving the typhoid vaccine
       within the last 3 years.                     is) - all personnel
            IMMUNE GLOBULIN (pre-expoSLire prophylax
       should receive 5cc (this assumes
       e length of Stay is greater                  ay is 3
       than 3 months). If certain the length of st
       onths or
       less than give 2cc.
            CHLOROQUINE PROPHYLAXIS - All troops should deploy on
       chloraquine prophylaxis. If medically contraindicated, daily
         ,@ycycline should be taken for up to 4 weeks. mefloqliine can
         so be used as a substitute.   Malaria is only endemic in




        or er, Iraq and western Saudi Arabia. In Iraq, only P. vivax
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