You need to watch the episode where there is a malaria threat in the camp. Klinger was supposed to get one drug but he got the wrong one because they sound very similar. When Col. Potter yells at Klinger, he switches them around.
Potter realizes at the end of this episode that Klinger didn't make a mistake. The army was out of the curative primoquin and sent a preventitive cloroquin, to keep the malaria in check until the ordered medicine could be sent. Also, Klinger got sick in this episode and thought he had malaria. It's a fact that wasn't known at this time during the Korean war, cloroquin effects Asians and African Americans differently than others causing symptoms that appear to be malaria. Klinger appeared to have malaria but didn't. This was explained at the close of the episode.
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