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Disease Control and Prevention


The Malaria Control Unit of the Philippines Public Health Rehabilitation Program in front of their headquarters. Following the reoccupation of the Philippines by the United States Armed Forces in 1945 and until 1950 the Public Health Service aided the Philippine government in surveying the general public health conditions on the Islands and reestablishing public health programs and quarantine facilities. The prevention and control of malaria with four to five million cases annually was a major objective of the program.

c. 1946


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