[PJ-Comix]

Years ago I met an old-timer who served in the army on Guadalcanal and he still was suffering from relapses of malaria after all those years. I asked him how many of those serving at Guadalcanal caught malaria. He replied, “Everyone.” I thought he was exaggerating. He wasn’t.

[PowderMonkey]

"I asked him how many of those serving at Guadalcanal caught malaria. He replied, “Everyone.” I thought he was exaggerating. He wasn’t."

You're right. He wasn't. When my family doctor was treating me for malaria, he told me of his father's experience with it in the Pacific theater during W.W. II. Everyone caught it. I've survived several different tropical fevers in my career. Malaria is a bear. It simply won't let go.

[Harold Shea]

It wasn`t “just” malaria they suffered with,dengue fever

was one they also came down with.My uncle that served on

Guam said he was as scared of the deseases you could come

down on those islands as of the japs