We all know that malaria was a terrible scourge of the BSF during the Macedonian campaign. It says something for the tricksy nature of the disease that it has taken over one hundred years for a reliable vaccine to be developed – and it still needs to be approved and manufactured:
BBC: New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists
We’re probably all familiar with the next photo in the series, of soldiers actually taking their quinine (IWM Q 32160), so I thought I would include the preceding image for a change!
Malaria is still such a threat to health around the globe today, that it even has its own day: World Malaria Day on 25 April
A date for your diary?
Featured image: British soldiers on parade waiting to receive their daily dose of the anti-malaria drug Quinine, in Salonika. © IWM Q 32159
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