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Tuberculosis

Despite significant advances in prophylaxis and treatment, tuberculosis continues as a serious public health problem, and resistance to the agents used for treatment continues to increase. Today posters are published warning of both AIDS and tuberculosis together, and on the importance of not interrupting treatment. Such ephemera joins the booklets, bookmarks, advertisements and brochures of earlier periods in stressing the importance of fresh air, sunshine, adequate nourishment and sufficient rest. Annual Christmas seal campaigns in North America and Europe were regularly responsible for newly-minted posters and seals; they continue today. In contrast to the materials published in the United States, French propaganda stressed the value of immunization against tuberculosis with B-C-G Vaccine, an approach which was never accepted by the medical community here.