MEFLOQUINE: Is the US Army poisoning its own Soldiers with Malaria Drugs? | ENDEVR Documentary

[@ENDEVRDocs]

Developed by the US Army after Vietnam to combat malaria in troops, Mefloquine became available to the public in the 90s. In the following decades it became known for its serious psychiatric side effects. Questions about why it has been so widely and easily dispensed have been raised for some time. The director's personal investigation seeks to understand why those affected have been left in the dark for so long. In doing so he uncovers some surprising truths about the powerful players involved in this controversial story.

[@magee1627]

When I was a young soldier, the old soldiers told me to throw the malaria pills in the trash right away

[@johnnynuff]

I can't believe it's still being prescribed, I remember suffering the side effects in Thailand in 1994. I stopped taking it immediately.

[@eriklarson4082]

What side effects did you get?

[@erictirico2432]

The dreams?

[@matthorrocks6517]

The g o v does not care about anyone.

[@MissyMuthaTruckiN]

never did

[@rc123theycallme]

I invaded Iraq. Every Monday was ‘Mefloquine Monday’ We would assemble in formation, this was at Camp Loki during Task Force Viking, and open ranks while leadership looked under our tongues to confirm we swallowed our pill. We kind of looked forward to Mefloquine Mondays because that night we all tripped in our dreams. Bright wild colors during a bleak night in a GP large with a swamp fan. We took Primaquine upon redeployment and it made us sick. Gave my buddy, a young soldier, a heart attack (he was physically disciplined during his heart episode for falling asleep in the med facility lobby after visiting for chest problems). We were also forced to receive the Anthrax and Smallpox vaccines. These are the reasons why I refused the COVID jab.

[@booognish]

You ever seen the 1990 psychological horror film “Jacobs Ladder”? It’s a kind of trippy, mindfuck with twists and turns throughout, but the main plot revolves around a Vietnam veteran reconnecting with the members of his unit, and coming to realize that their shared frightening experiences, may be the side effects resulting from some kind of secret experiment performed on them..

[@rc123theycallme]

@@booognish they test on inmates and the military. Then came COVID and all humans became subjects…

[@pjespinal5037]

Then the missiles are cleaned with perchlorate and more. Then they say all of them smoked and that's why cancers! Vets n cancers- and their families.

[@pjespinal5037]

But my vaccine sitch was different. As a kid I got cholera and other weird vaccines depending on country and outbreaks. As a sailor myself I refused the air guns because they slice random designs across arms and no sanitizer between arms. Bang bang bang bang blood blood blood. AIDS was just coming on scene. I got banged once on each arm in a sequence to be 4 each arm and I just said he'll no. Give me my own needles. But reactions to Vax never occurred to me. I did end up with hep c.

[@pjespinal5037]

I think I was braver than other recruits because I was already 21 and a mom.

[@adnamaremmirt2776]

How terrifying, i cant imagine being abroad and suffering like that. The fact that my uncle told me years ago that malaria drugs could cause hallucinations when he was the most straight lace that i had ever met shows me that its a dangerous substance and should be considered like morphine or ambien.

[@Padraigp]

Yes ive always known this not sure how but it may have been from movies .... I think the important thing is that people know this before they take it so when they hallucinate they can say ok this is because of that drug. Like when you take mushroomms its ok because you know youve taken it anad its gonna happen but if somone spikes you you dont know and its terrifying. But if its causing cerbral brain damage which makes you hallucinate thats not cool. Especially if its permanent and especially if soldiers are just doing a training that they could do somewhere else without malaria. I got similar from a drug antibiotic and chemotherapy drugged restricted for use after 15 years of complaints ...flourawuinalone. it can make your heart collapse and i only took 2 tablets and had a month of terror ..just terror for no reason whatsoever. It was horrible. And some people have that for life. I was suicidal but just like being trapped in a bad trip wanting to make it stop... I knew that it would probably get better ...I only took 2 tablets. It affected my tendons but some people their tendons 6 months later just snap or their heart valves collapse... it affects the collegen or something. Also interferes with cellular metabolism. Maybe it also affected my brain. It was so horrific... I had googled is it good and got great results. Then i started feeling weird and googled if its bad and got so much back about it being bad i was like thank you google you gave me a totaally biased view. I wouldnt have taken it if i had known. The drug was banned 10 days earlier but nobody tells doctors when something is banned. Even years later a doctor prescribed it and i told him itd banned. He said he gives it out every day. I said google it which he did then loed to my face that he never said he gives it to anyone. Untrustworthy people. Nobody should take a drug eithout googling the side effects and not jsut googling is it good but is it bad cos you wont get anyr esults about it being bad otherwise. My drug is similar to these quinine drugs.

[@komakechstephenkevin7936]

When I was young malaria used to be treated with chloroquine and whenever I take I would have bad dreams and sometimes I would feel like something was sitting on me. Now we use others with less side effects. The one I use doesn't stop me from working even when I am on treatment. Luckily I can even take ten years without getting malaria.

[@Padraigp]

@@komakechstephenkevin7936 what do you take. They also used to just use quinine without the chloro or the flouro or whatever. Thats whats in tonic water i believe.

[@LostAnFound]

I've taken Lariam for travel. Initially, there's no side effects. Within about three days, the three of us guys in our early 20s were waking each other up with the outward reactions to out ultra-vivid dreams. My brother spent a night hanging out near a creek where he received hundreds of mosquito bites (his exposed elbow area destroyed). So, while my buddy and I stopped taking Larium when we got home, my brother continued the regimen per guidelines to prevent malaria. This meant that he had to continue it for weeks after arriving home. Nobody wants malaria. But, the effect was that the vivid dreams progressed to a state of a sort of generalized intensity. Not anxiety....intensity. He called me telling me how horrible he felt and that he had this sense of, well, malignant intensity. Once the course was completed, he felt better within days. What were the long-term effects on his personality?

[@aaronlattimore9409]

I was at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 2002. Deployed 2 times Afghanistan and Iraq with Ft. Bragg. I remember the Fort Bragg, North Carolina killing. I was also prescribed Lariam. I took it for only 2 or 3 days then was told to stop taking it. I had vivid nightmares. I join the Army 1988-2014.

[@ENDEVRDocs]

@@aaronlattimore9409 Thanks for sharing your experiences. Stay well.

[@Blood_bought1]

🫶 thank you for your service

[@StephenvanWijk]

I used lariam 23 years ago, for my vacation in Africa. I had the experience that I didn’t feel myself no more. Sort of psychological zombie twilight zone experience. I decided to not take the weekly pill anymore and to ask a local doctor for a different malaria prophylactic. Back home I was lightly sick in the stomach after eating bread and butter, for a few weeks. That symptom disappeared too. Gave a similar feedback to the doctor who prescribed it. But according to him it couldn’t be lariam. I withheld a Dutch reply in that conversation. And decided once again never to take it again.

[@faza553]

Any "medicine" can cause any adverse effect at any time during and after it's duration of consumption. “All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed. - Florence Nightingale

[@StephenvanWijk]

@@faza553No. Medicines have a number of adverse reactions possible that are less in number than any. Ivermectine is widely used in third world countries as malaria prophylactic. Ivermectine has not that kind of adverse effects. It’s quite safe, it is sold over the counter in many countries with malaria going around. My experience with lariam was really unsettling, I was disassociated from me, while being conscious. Not acceptable at all, it can make people crazy. It’s 23 years ago, I still remember it clearly, it was horrific.

[@Soul_Alpha]

Sounds like you experienced dissociation like an out of body experience

[@Shelley-j2y]

What surprises me is that this video can be shown, but the comments are deleted as quickly as they are written. Factisthereisntagovernmentthatcanbetrustedsatanrunsthemall

[@mickgatz214]

How come your comment didn't get.. 'deleted'?. 😂

[@vivalarazausarmyvet4453]

Ivan, your comments aren't getting deleted, they are shadow banned automatically by KZbin.

[@cantstopthemusic456]

welldoneforalsodiscoveringtoquitthespacebarforimportantreplies😂😂😂😉😉😉👍👍👍👍👍

[@kat8838]

Nice try CCP

[@cantstopthemusic456]

@@kat8838 bakatcha 77th B

[@Shelley-j2y]

Hey yt, stop censoring comments.

[@celticsunise4ever]

It's surreal but since a certain controlled narrative began, the stealth algo has improved significantly... it's only going to get worse.

[@slowanddeliberate6893]

60% of all the comments I make on videos are deleted by YT. 🤨

[@Galen-864]

Same. And I only give correct stats - in other words, the truth.

[@celticsunise4ever]

@@Galen-864 Honestly they can't handle the truth being openly discussed... This became evident several years ago and only continues to worsen...very helpful tool for control.

[@booognish]

It’s unbelievably frustrating and disturbing to me, because it used to kind of make sense and I adapted my “style” and language so as to not be as potentially “offensive” vulgar/politically incorrect, yet I regularly see seemingly benign comments deleted within minutes of being posted, seemingly for no legitimate reason and without explanation. I occasionally will receive notifications for certain debatably “offensive” comments being deleted, warning me not to make comments like that, blah blah “hate speech”, and occasionally blocking me from being able to comment at all for 24-48hrs…

[@CindyLakeLasVegas]

My dad was poisoned by malaria drugs as a paratrooper in the 101st during WWll. This has been ongoing for a long time.

[@theenchiladakid1866]

They didn't give malaria drugs to the 101st as they was in europe

[@TillyRhodes-Mayo]

At least he didn't wind up with malaria, I've used Lariam (meflocquine) to prevent it for years with very few side effects. All medication will have an adverse effect in some people.

[@blackswan1983]

​@@TillyRhodes-Mayoand they have different safety profiles that need to be taken into consideration. This one is dangerous. You lucked out.

[@CindyLakeLasVegas]

@@TillyRhodes-Mayo He wound up with life long adverse effects, though.

[@smania7575]

​@@TillyRhodes-MayoIt's when the adverse effects are not discussed, swept under the rug, or downplayed that's the issue. If you knew you may always have a heightened sense of panic for the rest of your life, would you take this drug? If you knew you may have nerve damage that could cause you pain for the rest of your life, would you take this drug?

[@Padraigp]

I took flouraquinalone a flourine surrounded by a quinine ..i had complete terror for a month. Total terror as if a bear was breathing down my neck. From 2 tablets. My tendons also got damaged. It is indetectable in the body. It doesnt break down in water teeatment plants of any kind either. It is crazy what they will hand you but restrict you taking hashish?

[@blackswan1983]

Sounds like we took the same drug, only I took 300 doses over 14 years. Same damage as you.

[@Padraigp]

@@blackswan1983 yeah some people take it without a problem for years and then take it again and get symptoms. Why did you keeo taking it so many times when you had those side effects was it as a chemotherapy drug you got it? I hope your side effects faded i feel so bad for people who have permenently got that terror. Everyone treated me like I was a mental case too. Friends family.i found a chinese herbal doctor who helped me out and reall did some research about it and i think that helped. I was a wreck

[@ericarona8599]

You got Floxed

[@olympics1234567]

I took an antibiotic called Cipro, which is a Fluoroquinolon drug, and it really messed up my tendons.

[@carolyneagan1206]

​@@blackswan1983fluoroquinolone toxicity

[@TinaMcCall.]

Thank you for your work, Mr. Watt. It infuriates me how commonplace these systemic abuses are. Until we, AS A START, decide to show gov'ts and capitalists that playtime is over (through general and debt strikes, targeted voting, and other forms of direct action), they will continue to gaslight and oppress us.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Very well made documentary. 👍 By the way, Artemisia annua is a very successful, widely used tisane for prevention and cure of malaria. And doesn't induce limbic encephalopathy!

[@Johnnythehab]

Uk also gave these to it's troops.

[@charlescharliejpeg]

Great doc. Thanks for uploading, I learned a lot today

[@nishitdronographer718]

I strongly think my memory and attention was Destroyed after taking this drug for relapsing maleria in high doses for a year in 1998 as a kid in 6th grade and my IQ nose dived even now i feel its effects 28 years later

[@imdifferentMr843]

I served with SGT Bales, Was on the same tour as the incident and all didn't know what to think after it happened*

[@danielwoolman8969]

Natural is the way to go whenever possible. All these chemicals and drugs are risky business to ingest.

[@Bebedollie]

I agree!! Natural is best

[@rdallas81]

As we all see and know by the drugs found in the water supplies that aren't being filtered out along with Pfas Pfoa and other eternal particular matter will definitely have a massive negative effect on everyone but especially to babies

[@ryanvasquez8288]

No choice in the military

[@carolyneagan1206]

I am so sorry. I am floxed also. This is so hard to watch.

[@patricianoll1229]

I got malaria two times dengue , still alive will never take anything, i live in the Caribbean

[@nunyabidness674]

while I can't speak for the UK armed forces, in the US at least, if you're prescribed a medication you WILL take it. No such thing as patients right to choose.

[@OfficialBrendanAdair]

I was prescribed many a medication in the service and didn’t take many as prescribed and I’m sitting here honorably discharged. It’s not that deep. They haven’t even used Mefloquine in the DoD since like 2013.

[@danielleburke87]

​@brendanadair5131 Even if they haven't been used since 2013, the damage has already been done. Agent orange is no longer used, but the damage is already done to thousands of vets, including my father

[@nunyabidness674]

@@OfficialBrendanAdair I seriously doubt you were dodging a vaccine. Sure, plenty of folks ignore their 800mg IBP skittles, try doing that with anthrax tablets / shots. It's one thing when they hand you the bottle and say "Do what it says on the label." It's a totally different story when the platoon is lined up being filed past the medic who ensures you take it while some yahoo E4 with a clipboard / tablet is ticking off names.

[@OfficialBrendanAdair]

@@danielleburke87 tracking, my grandfather was a survivor of Agent Orange, I myself was around plenty of burn pits. What I’m trying to say is they’ve already removed it from circulation. As long as they’re providing follow on care, education and disability services to the affected soldier, then that’s the best you’re going to get a lot of the time. I’d love for cash reimbursement to be provided, but that’s highly unrealistic. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to deal with the horns when you sign your name away to the bull. Doesn’t help when you have a force reactionary by nature, instead of proactive. Things are almost always done in retrospect when it comes to the military.

[@OfficialBrendanAdair]

@@danielleburke87 Yes, aware. Grandfather dealt with Agent Orange, too. I was around tons of burn pits myself. Here’s the thing though, the military is reactionary by nature, not proactive. For service members suffering from the effects of Agent Orange, Mefloquine, etc., the DoD has been providing disability, education, and follow on care opportunities for decades. I put myself on the burn pit registry and discharged with my full disability and benefits. They did exactly what they were supposed to do for me. Of course, anyone would prefer that exposure doesn’t happen at all, but quite frankly, when you sign your name away to the bull, you have to deal with the horns. It’s the military, not a desk job. I understand the anger/disappointment, but you’re not going to find much better anywhere else on the planet under any other armed force. Not perfect but definitely better than most.

[@sambowdin5608]

I was unaware of the pervasiveness of this disease. i will watch on

[@carolyneagan1206]

Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

[@sambowdin5608]

@@carolyneagan1206 ahh...thank you

[@ANTIAVISOSPORFIN-ii1cu]

ENDEVR Thank You Very Much For Share This Important Documentary!😇🙏

[@michellemcclintock7074]

You are fighting the powers that be wars NOT OURS

[@johndowe1494]

Major lawsuits in Canada-I am the representative plaintiff.

[@carolyneagan1206]

Thank you. I am floxed in the USA

[@michellemcclintock7074]

Isnt it strange Ive just made 3 comments and the number of comments stays the SAME

[@vonbarnes2700]

US Soliders should be able to smoke weed it’s help at least off duty

[@jonathanbowling3129]

Took this for 1 1/2 yrs whilst stationed overseas. I wonder…..

[@MrToontuber]

Same stuf as in the film the Jacobsladder with Tim Robbins.

[@theenchiladakid1866]

8 in a box says how bad it is for you. My medication you can easily od on comes 28 to a pack

[@carolyneagan1206]

3 pills crippled me

[@michaeldejesus4473]

They made us drink a liquid in bootcamp had my blood tested came back double testosterone than avg man

[@ryanvasquez8288]

Did you notice any balding or ed??

[@TillyRhodes-Mayo]

I've used "Lariam" aka 'Mefloquine several times as an anti-malarial in south east Asia. At one point I took it for around six months. The only notable side effect myself or fellow travelers experienced was some rather full on dreams.

[@smania7575]

That's what's so dangerous. The government and Big Pharma can easily hide adverse events from people or brush them under the rug. I know MANY people who had similar reactions to weaning off Zoloft as me (horrible btw). I also know some that had no issues weaning at all. And withdrawals were hidden for years even though there was TONS of "anecdotal evidence" out there. Big pharma and doctors don't even use the word "withdrawal" either. They call it "discontinuation syndrome" to hide what it truly is so more people will be willing to take it. We are all different so we cannot know if we will be one of the people who react horribly, have no reactions, or have minor reactions. But, many still trust Big Pharma and doctors as if they know what is best for every individual.

[@AmmoC9M]

Know a Canadian vet who claims it causes insomnia & the eventual "melting of your brain stem"

[@blackswan1983]

It does. I'm floxxed by ciprofloxacin, another Fluoroquinolone drug, and my connective tissues are tearing apart and going away. I can't regulate my body temperature, blood pressure, and exercise gives me vertigo. It's no joke.

[@AmmoC9M]

@@blackswan1983 I'm sorry to hear. I went to a town hall meeting which hosted a Water systems engineer - representing for the provincial government - who was sent down to quel concerns regarding changes being made to the communities drinking water. They were proposing adding polyacrylamide (a known carcinogen) to treat the water. Was told that they consider it "Risk Management" if only an "acceptable number" of people get cancer from it. I know it's not the same, but the mindset of these so called 'trusted experts' is the same. & at who's expense?

[@Bebedollie]

🙏​@@blackswan1983

[@carolyneagan1206]

Google fluoroquinolone Toxicity

[@carolyneagan1206]

​@@blackswan1983💯

[@rdallas81]

Not watching. KZbin blocking comments.

[@plsSparesumchange]

Average gov't activity

[@Savannasummerrr]

Bactrim DS made me feel this way

[@rdallas81]

Music is way too loud

[@Bluecollarjoe6B9]

I had the wildest nightmares on that stuff

[@Pugetwitch]

1:55 sign me up, sounds like an acid trip I had back in 1997😅 I'm just kidding actually, it's terrifying to experience true psychosis where you have hallucinations and delusions. It sounds almost like she was in a delirium but I only just started listening to the story, I feel bad for everybody who has been affected by any drugs including the massive amounts of failed trials.😊

[@heshhochhesh]

Had it in Thailand in 2014, we all stayed awake for the first 48 hours of it

[@andrewkeohan1771]

I think it was given to irish troops but not officers for overseas mission's

[@makylemur7019]

I used doxycycline as malaria preventive on my two trips to Madagascar. No problems.

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Thank you

[@modifyingmemory]

Yea lol, they give you a pink pill and tell you don’t rub your eyes after you take it, got it during reception 😂😂😂

[@jenpsakiscousin4589]

Quinine works and is / was over the counter

[@connietrotterdedgrl6861]

What the people inThe United States know already and you may not be aware of is don't F with the military complex. Such people are assassinated by lone gunman. Be safe my friend

[@sahltyy]

When I learned they use to take plaquinil and its anti malaria I take it for lupus

[@rdallas81]

What is Lupas? BACTERIAL infection? A virus? I remember my brothers x GF was diagnosed with it- They "couldn't" treat it? Just gave her meds to limit symptoms apparently. Hope you're ok!

[@sahltyy]

@@rdallas81 it’s autoimmune disease rheumatoid I have my days and I wish one day they have better treatments I have to take chemo ontop of that pill and the sun makes everything worse so I’m surviving cause this summer heat

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

⁠@@rdallas81 it’s an autoimmune disease, basically the body treats its own cells as a threat and rejects its own cells as foreign. i have this disease and it’s devastating, especially when it’s undiagnosed and not well understood. it’s like your body cannibalizes itself. it rendered me bedridden unable to be outside without unbearable hives and rashes from ultraviolet radiation agitating my photosensitivity from the disease and i’ve become immunocompromised because of the condition exhausting my immune system. a simple cold virus could potentially kill me with a cytotoxic storm. there is no cure for it at the moment, only ways to manage it with immunotherapy like monoclonal antibodies immunosuppressants corticosteroids and IV immunoglobulin

[@alaine5083]

My dad came back from Vietnam with malaria. I remember he would get sick every 2 to 3 years for about 2 weeks at a time… when he started drinking lemon drinks and grapefruit drinks the malaria stopped returning after some time… I remember he got a bout at around 60 he hadn’t had malaria ova 10 years earlier…. When the government covid genocide agenda hit, lemon and grapefruit were our preferred choice of preventative food medicine

[@erictirico2432]

Those dreams though…..

[@JeepCherokeeful]

Luckily I didn’t take mine…

[@terrorizingtheturbine]

Yeah, just gotta build up that tolerance to Malaria

[@slytlygufy]

The Atabrine the government made WW2 soldiers take caused full on psychotic episodes.

[@bastiaan7777777]

Lariam....

[@rdallas81]

Yeah, short for delirium.

[@kcism3239]

US Army? Every Branch

[@margaretneanover3385]

So nepal has bad people not of the same as religiously guarded. I mean vast amounts not a few that need more. If this drug is not honest for Malaria, then other things added do similar ideas. Not mental alone imo.

[@explorecriminalminds]

Kind of lihe these Boosters for Covid

[@slytlygufy]

Cinchona bark. Natural quinine.

[@MoxamedBarsear]

Tuskegee 2.0

[@1off39]

You sign up ,you pay . They own you , blame yourselves

[@rdallas81]

Truth

[@carolyneagan1206]

Wow except over 80 million people are floxed from this and children and pets are in that number.

[@elnakynakynews7786]

,,,,🏃🏇🚒🚨🚨📸🎒😲🚨🚨🚨🌍 llegué que piensan de esto??? Mi gente bella

[@practice4617]

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