Instead of taking 500 mg of chloroquine phosphate per week to prevent malaria, a 16 year old blonde took the dosage daily during a holiday in Costa Rica. One week after her holiday her hair turned even paler.
I wonder if any brain cells died in the process.
Reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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