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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]