Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not sure about then. In Africa, for sure; Cambodia, for sure; Korea, I can't be positive.

Veterans Affairs committee  Essentially, the military is a subpopulation of the larger population. Countries are looking. Every opportunity we get to talk to our allies about what they are looking at.... The Australians have been looking. They just had a Senate hearing, and they have a few clinics in place

Veterans Affairs committee  I think it's the Australian government—their VA, I believe.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that's a great question. The typical way we would study it is doing population-based research. We would do a careful analysis following people over time.

Veterans Affairs committee  The definitive research, if you want to go right down to it.... If you're saying to demonstrate brain changes, you would have to give half the people mefloquine and half the people not mefloquine, then send them to a war zone and expose them to mTBI, concussions and trauma and th

Veterans Affairs committee  You mean the normal adverse drug reactions, which some people would feel. Yes, absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm a bit confused by the question, but the confounders are huge. If you take young men and women into a war zone, deprive them of sleep and maybe dehydrate them, with the heightened stress and being away from their family.... We also have epidemiological data that shows a high

Veterans Affairs committee  We have lots of screening in place; that's what militaries do. It's not specifically with regard to mefloquine, but after deployment, we have an enhanced post-employment screening. We're really looking for anybody who's having difficulties of any nature after deployment—physical,

Veterans Affairs committee  There's actually very little. The only thing that I could find was one study on rats. It gave rats incremental dosages of mefloquine, which was, I think, eventually up to about 7 times the dose of treatment, so much higher than we would use for prophylaxis. They did some testing

Veterans Affairs committee  That's right. There were some old studies on monkeys from the 1940s and 1950s that were using precursors. They were using other quinolones. As the general was saying, there's really a bit of a leap scientifically from the biological studies. There really aren't definitive biologi

Veterans Affairs committee  Again, you're asking a military person about Veterans Affairs Canada, so would you like me to continue answering it?

Veterans Affairs committee  It's up to Veterans Affairs to decide what their network is.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm a military member. I focus on military matters.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't think so. I'm not positive though.