Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 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 "babban zazzabi" ƙauracewar 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 tana daya daga cikin cututtukan da ke fama da rauni da ke shafar bangarorin biyu a New Guinea a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Kokoda
a kan matsanancin yanayi a karkashin tsananin wahala <unk> ya yi yaƙi a cikin watanni shida a duk hanyar 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 yi zazzabi na, kuma cewa rashin lafiyar da aka samu ya fi yawan asarar da makamai suka yi 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.