I've been doing VA claims now for 23 years, and you ask a very good question. An individual's been deployed, they're on mefloquine, and if they develop symptoms during the use of the mefloquine, then you can at least have some sort of a trail. The difficulty is, what happens if the individual is not necessarily even aware of that or doesn't pay attention? They suck it up, with the macho sort of attitude and stuff, and then 20 years later, they come in and say, “I was on mefloquine, and I have all these symptoms.” Do they have a valid claim?
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