while 10,000 marines landed on guadalcanal, the first meetings of his malaria project took place. they were recruiting top scientist in the field from -- many of these men had never learnt about malaria but they were needed for this project. this was the number one political priority of the war department. and they started working on drugs as the marines on guadalcanal without the landscape or the waters pooled, the mosquito spread. they can't turn into mud holes. at one point a medical corpsman said to a battle commander, we have got to do something about all the mosquitoes that are breeding in this landscape because we will have terrible malaria. the commander said we are hill to -- we are here to kill jobs and to hell with mosquito. that was sent back to headquarters. everybody in malaria knows but it was sent back to headquarters. that week the first cases of malaria landed in a field hospitals. by january of 1943 the infection rate on guadalcanal and on new guinea and on so many of the islands was 3000 infections from 1000 in per animal. so there were going to get three times