Malaria and Finnish troops

http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/1/171


Dynamics of positional warfare malaria: Finland and Korea compared

Lena Huldén1* and Larry Huldén2


The malaria peak during the positional warfare in the 1940's was a short outbreak during the last phase of declining indigenous malaria in Finland. The activation of hypnozoites among a large number of soldiers and subsequent medication contributed to diminishing the reservoir of malaria and speeded up the eradication of the Finnish malaria.

 

Interesting. I always thought of malaria as a tropical disease. Thanks for posting this.