Yono Ota, who became infected with malaria his second year on the island, successfully treated his illness by "eating lots of pork every day when I was sick" and using Chinese herbal medicine.
來此第二年就感染瘧疾的王田用能，就是「生病期間，每天都吃很多豬肉」，又用漢方草藥好好調理，才逐漸復原。