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Mosquito Vectors

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Insects as carriers of disease

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Images from the collections

Images about Mosquito Vectors

28 images from works
  • 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.
  • 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 Visayan (Phillipine). Colour lithograph.
  • Bottles, bins etc. in which mosquitoes breed. Colour lithograph by Menendez, 1981.
  • 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 Tongan. Colour lithograph.
  • A blue cross containing stylised representations of situations in which the Aedes aegypti mosquito can flourish: discarded rubbish, a bin, water, a house etc. , and a representation of the mosquito itself. Colour lithograph, ca. 1982.
  • Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).

Works from the collections

52 works

    • 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

Related topics

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
World War II
Malaria - Prevention
Sexuality
Oahu
Hotlines (Counseling)
Injections, Intravenous
Malaria
Yellow Fever
Cuba

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