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Mosquitoes as carriers of disease

Images

  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Cambodian. Colour lithograph.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Chinese. Colour lithograph.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Japanese. Colour lithograph.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Japanese. Colour lithograph.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The mosquito crusades : a history of the American anti-mosquito movement from the Reed Commission to the first Earth Day / Gordon Patterson.

    Patterson, Gordon M. | Date: [2009], ©2009
    • Books
    • Online

    Report on two experiments on the mosquito-malaria theory : instituted by the Colonial Office and the London School of Tropical Medicine / by Louis W. Sambon and George C. Low.

    Sambon, Louis W. | Date: 1902
    • Pictures

    The malaria mosquito under a spotlight, with scenes showing how to avoid catching malaria. Colour lithograph after a design attributed to Reginald Mount.

    Mount, Reginald. | Reference: 22673i
    • Pictures

    World War II: a soldier refusing to use anti-mosquito cream: they are his last words, as he dies of malaria. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, ca. 1944.

    Hopper, Stacey, 1909-1996. | Date: [1944] | Reference: 584187i
    Part of: A.M.D. poster
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001719: Reproduction of the title page from Van muggen en malaria, 1924

    | Date: 24 March 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/16/13
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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