### Comment:
It’s only recommended for prolonged stays in high risk areas because of the quite serious side effects. I’ve traveled a bunch in high risk zones in Asia and always been recommended to use insect repellant instead of malaria medicine.

### REPLY:
correct. I am lucky and it does not bother me. A few people I travel with can't take it, one spent two weeks in a hospital and missed the entire trip. Nothing like a hospital stay in a 3rd world hospital shitting out your brains.

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