Belgrano also experienced paludism (malaria) during the second campaign to Upper Peru.

In March 2005, the singer participated in the concert Africa Live, which was organised to fight against (malaria) paludism.

The miasmatic effluvia which rise from the river during the night bring on an intermittent fever, or paludism, often of great severity, accompanied by unendurable headaches.

Lenk-letter and Elphinstone, destined also to leave their bones in Batavia, were suffering with the same paludism that had attacked Captain Bligh.