Visual Culture and Health Posters

Title:: Eradicate Malaria by Spraying

(high resolution jpg) High resolution version (6,492,384 Bytes)

Description:

From the 1950s to the 1980s, malaria eradication campaigns dominated the international health agenda. Particularly active programs in Latin America, South Asia, and Africa consumed a substantial proportion of national health expenditures as well as major inputs from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Optimists argued that given enough insecticide, medicine, and money, the disease-causing mosquito could be eliminated from the planet. It gradually became apparent that the strength of the parasite to survive and continue causing disease in human hosts had been grossly underestimated and the program ultimately failed. Lack of community involvement in campaigns, cultural and organizational inflexibility, and inadequate research support were all contributing factors in the program's demise. This poster from India reflects the overconfidence in eradication. The embellished image of a man spraying insecticide on a larger-than-life mosquito suggests that wiping out the insects, by using insecticides such as DDT, would lead to the elimination of the disease. It did not.

NOTE: Slide of original poster image is slightly blurry.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (844,156 Bytes)

Date Supplied:

ca. 1960

Creator:

Indian Malaria Eradication Programme

Source:

Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.

This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).

URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

IHM Order Number: A025617

Publisher:

Indian Malaria Eradication Programme

Rights:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division.

The National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science program has made every effort to secure proper permissions for posting items on the web site. In this instance, however, it has either not been possible to identify or contact the current copyright owner. If you have information regarding the copyright owner, please contact us at profiles@nlm.nih.gov.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Malaria; Public Health

Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:: Eradication

Exhibit Category:

Infectious Disease

Unique Identifier:

VCBBCS

Document Type:

Posters

Slides (photographs)

Language:

English

Hindi

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-08-13

U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health & Human Services
USA.gov, Copyright, Privacy, Accessibility
Comments, Viewers, Acknowledgments