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n. - A drug for treating a mosquito born disease (marked by paroxysms of chills and fever ) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine.

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  • Also, Larium is 95% effective at stopping malaria, but the others are only 80% effective.
  • However, Larium gets the door prize for psychiatric side effects, with over half of people who take it developing psychiatric symptoms.
  • My wife and I have traveled extensively in malaria zones and we specifically did not use Larium because of the numerous stories of negative side effects including...
  • Some volunteers take a different medication than mine because they have problems with Larium (you may have heard about it --- it gives some people crazy dreams or...
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