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title: Don't Strip Tease for Anopheles
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-strip-tease-for-anopheles-1946/
description: 'Malaria-control poster for troops: a shirtless soldier in a helmet and boots clutches a towel as a cartoon mosquito with a stinger hovers beside him.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Don't Strip Tease for Anopheles, 1946 US poster: Malaria-control poster for troops](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-strip-tease-for-anopheles-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-strip-tease-for-anopheles-1946.jpg)

# Don't Strip Tease for Anopheles

Malaria-control poster for troops: a shirtless soldier in a helmet and boots clutches a towel as a cartoon mosquito with a stinger hovers beside him, with the words 'Malaria' and 'Keep Covered'. The pun on 'strip tease' carries the message; the fear-appeal rests on naming malaria, and the technique is faint.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Don't strip tease
for Anopheles
The anopheles mosquito
is a carrier of
MALARIA
KEEP COVERED
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946-O-703234
WD GTA 8-24, July 46. Don't Strip Tease for Anopheles. Distribution: Continental: Special distribution. Overseas to Pacific and Caribbean Areas only: A (1); CHQ (1); D (1); B (1); R (1); Bn (1); C (2); D 1 (1); W (1); G (1); S (1). For explanation of distribution formula, see FM 21-6.
```

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