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Poster of a girl covering her face with a tissue
Poster warning of the dangers of dirty water
Anti-rat poster
Young boy in danger
Images of hands and objects touching indicate AIDS cannot be spread this way
T-cells and a condom
Nationwide campaign urging mass screening for TB
Mortality statistics for TB, syphilis, and cancer
Scientist studies TB
Man sneezing on a crowd
Soldiers looking at a clean-cut girl
Vermin feeding on trash
Poster likening disease-carrying mosquitoes to the Japanese
Image of a fly landing on a piece of bread, spreading germs
Traps used to kill disease-carrying flies
See a real doctor to cure venereal diseases

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Poster warning of the dangers of dirty water

Beware...drink only approved water.

This poster, from the War Department, shows a soldier about to drink from a microbe-infested jungle stream. He is surprised to see his reflected face transformed into a figure of death.

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Skeleton (death figure) represented by an image of a skull

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Mortality statistics for TB, syphilis, and cancer
La course a la mort. (The race with death.)

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MedlinePlus Health Topic:
Water Pollution