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...Gu, who was on a trip with friends shortly before his 25th birthday, received a prescription for Lariam, a common anti-malarial medication prescribed to over 25 million people...
Lariam comes in a pill to be taken weekly, and Gu took his second dosage the night before the accident. In the hours between taking the medicine and embarking on the next day’s trip, Gu showed various signs of disorientation, said Jay F. Chen ’00-’01, a close friend of Gu who was travelling in Venezuela with...
...Gu experienced trouble inserting a contact lens and loading film into his camera. He took the wrong path while making a part of the trip he had made before—and even, while rappelling down a cliff, began to unbuckle his harness before he’d reached the ground, as if he did not realize the danger it presented, Chen said...
Gu’s behavior during the fatal accident was also unusual. The group was climbing a moderately difficult hill, Chen said, when he saw Gu stumble. But instead of regaining his footing or even falling straight down as his companions expected, Gu—apparently completely off balance—toppled backwards over the hill, Chen said. He died from injuries to the head...
...They just gave him the medicine and he took it,” Jane Gu said. “I did get a record from the doctor and I got a pharmacy handout, but the doctor didn’t tell him anything. The pharmacy handout didn’t mention anything about such a serious problem. That’s a very vague kind of handout that really didn’t do enough to alert the travelers what...