Sierra Leone: April 4, 2001

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Fifteen British paratroopers are suing the Ministry of Defence because they contracted malaria (which will recur various times for many years) while in Sierra Leone. A total of 112 British soldiers caught the disease when the British ran short of mefloquine (the drug used to prevent malaria).--Stephen V Cole

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