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Gallery: Vector-borne Disease

傳病的蒼蠅 (Flies spread diseases), 1952

傳病的蒼蠅 (Flies spread diseases), Propaganda Office of the Central Ministry of Health, 1952

This poster teaches Chinese citizens how flies spread disease. It shows the life cycle of flies, how flies transmit diseases like cholera, dysentery and typhoid, and shows ways of eliminating flies and preventing disease transmission.


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Poster with 3 horizontal panels of images and text showing ways of preventing infectious diseases by keeping one’s environment clean, title on top

This poster series produced by the Propaganda Office of the Central Ministry of Health in 1952 uses panels of images to educate citizens on the various ways of preventing disease from keeping their environment, water, and food clean to getting vaccinations and eradicating vectors of disease like lice, mosquitoes, and flies