Lengkepan kalimah di handap ieu: Perang Dunya II nyadiakeun sababaraha indikator yén panyakit ieu endemik ka wewengkon undeveloped di sakabéh Oséania di teater Pasifik, sanajan catetan perang mindeng kakurangan diagnostik definitif, sarta loba catetan tina "panas tinggi" evacuations éta ogé dipikaresep janten panyakit tropis lianna. Dina bab nu judulna "The War Héjo", Jenderal MacArthur urang biografer William Manchester ngaidentipikasi yén panyakit ieu salah sahiji jumlah tina afflictions debilitating mangaruhan duanana sisi di New Guinea dina ngajalankeun getih
Kokoda battles over extremely harsh terrains under intense hardships<unk> fought during a six-month span all along the Kokoda Track in 1942<unk>43, and mentions that to be hospital-evacuated, Allied soldiers (who cycled forces) had to run a fever of, and that disease casualties outnumbered weapons-inflicted casualties 5:1. Sarupa ogé, panyakit ieu mangrupa produsén korban dina sagala perang leuweung tina perang darat tina kampanye New Guinea jeung kampanye Guadalcanal. Di mana Pasukan Sekutu boga pangkalan, maranéhna bisa ngaluarkeun jeung motong pepelakan, atawa ngagunakeun DDT salaku pangobatan panghalang prophylaxis, jadi tingkat panyakit anu diinduksi ku kutu jeung kutu dina pasukan di luar garis hareup diréduksi.