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title: Man-Made Malaria
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/man-made-malaria-navy-1944/
description: 'Navy malaria-control sheet: a cartoon mosquito with rising-sun-pattern wings, a yellow face, buck teeth and slanted eyes sits beside the words ''6'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Mosquito drawn with rising-sun wings and a yellow-faced, buck-toothed, slant-eyed caricature of a Japanese face, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Man-Made Malaria, 1944 US poster: Navy malaria-control sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/man-made-malaria-navy-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/man-made-malaria-navy-1944.jpg)

# Man-Made Malaria

Navy malaria-control sheet: a cartoon mosquito with rising-sun-pattern wings, a yellow face, buck teeth and slanted eyes sits beside the words '6 mosquitoes in 10 breed in water in unnecessary ruts, abandoned roads, blocked ditches, fox and shell holes.' The transfer is the national flag emblem placed on the insect; the text itself is a drainage instruction for troops.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Man-Made Malaria
6
MOSQUITOES
IN 10
BREED IN WATER
IN
UNNECESSARY RUTS
ABANDONED ROADS
BLOCKED DITCHES
FOX AND SHELL HOLES
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-601810]
NAVMED 141-E
```

[← Malaria Warning](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaria-warning-fight-the-peril-1944/) [滿洲中央銀行百圓 (Central Bank of Manchukuo, 100 yuan note, 1944) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manchukuo-central-bank-100-yuan-confucius-1944/)

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