預防黑熱病 (To prevent black fever), ca. 1954
預防黑熱病 (To prevent black fever), Ministry of Health, Propaganda Office, and Health Educational Equipment Manufacturing Institute, ca. 1954
Black fever, or leishmaniasis is caused by an infection of leishmania parasites which are spread from the bites of sandflies. This poster shows a farmer receiving a shot at a black fever prevention station and includes illustrations of a sandfly and Leishmania donovani, the black fever parasite. The scenes pictured below show ways to prevent sandflies around the house.
About the Book
This two-poster series created by the Propaganda Office of the Ministry of Health, ca. 1954, educates Chinese citizens on the spread of Schistosomiasis from freshwater snails and malaria and elephantiasis from mosquitoes