they started working on drugs as the marines on guadalcanal ripped up the landscape. the waters pooled, the mosquitoes bred, they can start into mud holes at one point a medical departments into a battle commander, we have got to do something about all the mosquitoes breeding in this landscape because we will have terrible malaria. and the commander said, we are here to kill japanese and to hell with mosquitoes. the week that was recorded in a report sent back to headquarters, everybody in malaria does this quote but the week the first cases of malaria landed in the field hospitals. by january of 1943 the infection rate on guadalcanal and on new guinea and on some of the other islands with 3000 infections per 1000 man per animal. so they were going to get three times a year. so the war department said we don't have a drug it. the malaria project, the scientists are doing the best. they are screening drugs using burglary which doesn't extrapolate the human malaria. they are doing toxic city tests on dogs which doesn't translate very well. they are fighting a lot with e