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next image细菌战 (Public health and germ warfare during the Korean War), ca. 1952
细菌战 (Public health and germ warfare during the Korean War), author unknown, ca. 1952
In the early 1950s, during the Korean War there was a “patriotic public health movement” against germ warfare. Posters produced by the local government of Shandong province (roughly 100 miles from Korea) show weapons accompanied by pests such as rats, mosquitoes, and flies. Using the imagery of the Korean War weaponized and demonized pests. The captions condemn the United States for using biological warfare in Northeast China and Korea's disregard of international sanction.
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These posters made in the early 1950s used the Korean War as a political backdrop to incentivize the public in their fight against diseases spread by pests such as flies and mosquitoes.