Rx me!
Monday, May 29th, 2006“Peel everything you eat, don’t sleep near pigs, Happy travels! Come back for a parasite stool test in August.” Over a month ago the nurse practitioner at the travel clinic in Burlington sent me away with prescriptions for Mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug, and Ciprofloxacin, a broad spectrum antibiotic that works against severe traveller’s diarrhea.
By the time I reached Vietnam I was well through half the Cipro regiment [read on]