The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people

The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people

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Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Language(s):
English
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Malaria
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Child
World Health Organization.
Abstract:
Exterior view: a woman with two children, one of which she is holding in her arms. Verso: WHO/5963. Ethiopia-Malaria. World Health. May/June 1960. Malaria epidemic strike in Ethiopia and its 18 million inhabitants in 1958. In lens than six months, from July to December the disease claimed 3 million victims of which 100,000 died. Details of this castastrophobic epidemy were revealed at the Second Regional Confrence on Malaria Eradication recently organized at Adis Ababa by WHO's Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people.
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World Health Organization; World Health Organization website
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1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:
101437014 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A013662
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101437014