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Poster with a main image, smaller line drawings in circles, and text below.
Cartoon-like drawing with yellow and white text on red background.
Poster with a main image of a woman walking through a field and text below.
Poster with panels of images and text.
Poster with panels of images and text.
Poster with a main image of a boy on the left, two horizontal panels of rectangular images, and text.
Poster with panels of images and text.
Poster with a main image in the center of a man with diseased lungs, smaller images on the right and left borders show ways to prevent TB, and text below.
Poster with a purple background and a main image of a man standing and a female health worker holding up a screen on his chest to take an x-ray, text below.
Poster with a main image and text below.
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Poster with a main image, two line drawings in circles, and text below
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Poster with image of a man taking of his uniform in a bedroom, window shows the night sky, title and text to the right.
Poster with a main image, title, and text.
Poster with a main image, title, and text.
Poster with a main image of a man getting a full body x-ray, title, and text.
Poster with a cityscape featuring Tiananmen, a farm, factories, and a Chinese flag on each side of a red star in the sky, text in the middle.
Poster with a red background, text below, and an image of a female nurse holding out one hand to show the construction site in the background. A smaller picture in the middle shows a male doctor examining a worker and a peasant.
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Poster with a main image, smaller line drawing in a circle, and text below.

霍亂 (Cholera), 1951

霍亂 (Cholera), Health Educational Equipment Manufacturing Institute of the Central Ministry of Health, 1951

To know how to prevent communicable diseases like cholera, Chinese citizens needed to understand its basic pathology. This poster shows a male farmer squatting over a latrine trench vomiting while having a diarrhea, and in a circle shows the shape of Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria which causes cholera.

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Poster with a main image of a man defecating and vomiting outside, smaller line drawing in a circle shows a bacteria, and text below.

This three-poster series produced by the Central Ministry of Health in 1951 feature images of people suffering with diseases like diarrhea, cholera, and typhoid fever. Explore the other posters below.

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Poster with a main image, smaller line drawing in a circle, and text below.
傷寒 (Typhoid fever), 1951
Poster with a main image, smaller line drawings in circles, and text below.
痢疾 (Diarrhea), 1951

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Cholera