---
title: Bệnh kiết lỵ (Dysentery)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dysentery-benh-kiet-ly-1965-1969/
description: A two-colour health poster headed 'Dysentery' shows a thatched house with a latrine over a stream, a map of Vietnam in orange and three drawn sufferers
section: Collection
---

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[![Bệnh kiết lỵ, 1965 US poster: A two-colour health poster headed 'Dysentery' shows a thatched house with a latrine over](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dysentery-benh-kiet-ly-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dysentery-benh-kiet-ly-1965-1969.jpg)

# Bệnh kiết lỵ (Dysentery)

A two-colour health poster headed 'Dysentery' shows a thatched house with a latrine over a stream, a map of Vietnam in orange and three drawn sufferers with labels for abdominal pain, tiredness and diarrhoea with mucus and blood. It says the disease is common where sanitation is lacking and that 73,194 cases were reported in Vietnam in 1962. This sheet has no clear persuasion technique beyond everyday village figures used to carry a public-health message.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BỆNH KIẾT LỴ

TẦM QUAN TRỌNG

BỆNH KIẾT LỴ HOÀNH HÀNH TẠI NHỮNG NƯỚC KHÔNG ĐẦY ĐỦ PHƯƠNG TIỆN VỆ SINH

TẠI VIỆT-NAM NĂM 1962 CÓ 73.194 NGƯỜI MẮC BỆNH ĐÃ KHAI BÁO

DẤU HIỆU VÀ TRIỆU CHỨNG

BỤNG (ĐAU QUẶN)

MỆT MỎI

ĐI TIÊU LUÔN PHÂN CÓ LẪN ĐÀM VÀ MÁU

SP-1002
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
DYSENTERY

IMPORTANCE

DYSENTERY RAGES IN COUNTRIES THAT LACK ADEQUATE SANITATION

IN VIETNAM IN 1962 THERE WERE 73,194 REPORTED CASES OF THE DISEASE

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

BELLY (COLICKY PAIN)

TIREDNESS

FREQUENT STOOLS WITH MUCUS AND BLOOD

SP-1002
```

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