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- A frightened farmer carries his wife, stricken down with tetanus, to the People's Health Centre in Savar- a boldly pioneering complex that is bringing health care to the rural poor of Bangladesh1
- A woman "paramedic" tests the tetanus case for serum hypersensitivity before starting the emergency treatment that will save her life1
- Positive reactions from two vaccinations leave visible scars on the arm of a little boy in Bangladesh. They are his guarentee against a diease which might otherwise have killed or blinked him1
- The desperate face of starvation. Emergency rehydration may just save this little boy's life in a Bangladesh hospital. But when coupled with chronic malnutrition, acute diarrhoeal dieases are child-killers1
- The last case of smallpox on the Asian sub-continent, discovered on 16 October 1975, was a little girl living in Bangladesh. This was also the last known case of the more virulent form of smallpo, variola major1
- Young infants or children suffering from vomiting are better rehydrated with small volumes of oral fluid given by spoon1