Comedy, our secret weapon against Malaria the anopheles mosquito that spread it, Humorous Malaria Posters:
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Comedy as a "weapon" against Enemies like Disease:
Malaria is not ever funny but humor as used in this collection of posters was a powerful weapon against WWII enemies like disease especially malaria and the Anopheles mosquito that carried it because it was an effective educational tool for the young people that comprised our troops. Posters and calendars were important tools in the war time campaign against disease but history shows that advances in science such as the development and use of synthetic antimalarial drugs and residual insecticides like DDT were greatest weapons to malariology during World War 2.
Malaria, Most Dangerous Second World War Enemy.
"This will be a long war if for every division I have facing the enemy I must count on a second division in hospital with malaria and a third division convalescing from this debilitating disease!"
General Douglas MacArthur, United States Army May 1943.
Over 60,000 U.S. troops died in Africa and the South Pacific from malaria. U.S. Forces could succeed to defeat the Axis Powers only after organizing a successful attack on malaria and the anopheles mosquito that carried it.
The Deadly War Time Scarcity of Quinine and Use of and Atabrine to Fight Malaria by the Allied Troops During World War II
Synthetic antimalarial drugs were developed a decade before the second world war but quinine remained in wider use than its synthetic counterparts until German and Japanese military conquest cut of the supply of quinine for the Allied Armies from Philippines and Indonesia. in the South Pacific and Holland. Malaria reached epidemic proportions among American troops fighting the Japanese on islands in the South Pacific. An estimated 60,000 US troops in Africa and the South Pacific died due to the lack of quinine.
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Early in the war a campaign in the prevention of malaria was initiated. A synthetic malaria preventive drug sold under the name of Atabrine was distributed to American troops stationed on the South Pacific islands. Complaints against the yellow pills were common. Atabrine was bitter, appeared to impart its own sickly hue to the skin. Some of its side effects were headaches, nausea, and vomiting, and in a few cases it produced a temporary psychosis. Although Atabrine was an effective antimalarial preventive drug but it was an effort to get the troops to take it.
WAR HISTORY LINK: More information about war time malariafrom www.malariasite.com...
Collection of World War 2 Malaria Mosquito Control Posters. |
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| More WWII Malaria Photos, Cartoons, Posters and Calendars from www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/...
1,459 Medical Related Photos & Posters Etc. from WWII www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/... |
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