How comman was Malaria?

[Chris Boonzaier]

I just recieved a bavarian EK Doc.. the man in question spent 4 spells of a couple of months in hospital with Malaria.... how comman was that for bavarian farmers??

Thanks

Chris

[E Williams]

It would be quite common, especially if he served in the tropics as it was for many years afterwards. Getting malaria back then was like getting the flu and we all know what happened to so many returning vets in 1919. We had malaria pills we took everyday in Nam and another every Monday.

Take anyone out of their environment and you'll see health problem and WWI brought so many off the farm for the first time and exposed them to all kinds of deceases. The high death rate during the American Civil War was not due to battlefields deaths but by deceases.

Ed

[Dave Danner]

Maybe you can figure this out? Most cases obviously arose in the Balkans and Turkey.

[Marcin L]

I have many Militarpasses with Malaria vaccine entries. I think it was most common vaccine then.