Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Yaƙin Duniya na II ya ba da wasu alamomi cewa cutar ta kasance a cikin yankunan da ba a ci gaba ba a duk Oceania a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Pacific, kodayake bayanan yaƙi galibi ba su da cikakkun maganganu, kuma yawancin bayanan "hauhawar zazzabi" na ƙaura sun kasance wataƙila wasu cututtukan wurare masu zafi. A cikin babi mai taken "The Green War", Janar MacArthur's biographer William Manchester ya gano cewa cutar ta kasance daya daga cikin cututtukan da suka shafi duka bangarorin biyu a New Guinea a cikin zubar da jini.
Kokoda yaƙe-yaƙe a kan matsananciyar ƙasa a ƙarƙashin tsananin wahala<unk> ya yi yaƙi a cikin watanni shida a duk faɗin Kokoda Track a cikin 1942<unk>43, kuma ya ambaci cewa don a kwashe shi daga asibiti, Sojojin Allied (waɗanda suka hau keke) dole ne su gudanar da zazzabi na, kuma cewa raunin da ya faru na rashin lafiya ya wuce raunin da ya faru da makamai 5: 1. Hakazalika, cutar ta kasance mai samar da rauni a cikin dukkan gwagwarmayar daji na yakin basasa na yakin New Guinea da yakin Guadalcanal. Inda Allies ke da tushe, za su iya cirewa da kuma yanke tsire-tsire, ko amfani da DDT a matsayin maganin rigakafin maganin rigakafi, don haka cututtukan cututtukan cututtukan cututtuka a cikin dakarun da ke gaba.