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title: Tuberculosis
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tuberculosis-how-it-spreads-1965-1969/
description: 'A public-health sheet titled ''Tuberculosis: how the disease spreads'' shows bacilli, a lung with a cavity, and two panels of line drawings.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Tuberculosis, 1965 US poster: A public-health sheet titled 'Tuberculosis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tuberculosis-how-it-spreads-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tuberculosis-how-it-spreads-1965-1969.jpg)

# Tuberculosis

A public-health sheet titled 'Tuberculosis: how the disease spreads' shows bacilli, a lung with a cavity, and two panels of line drawings: coughing and sneezing at another person (direct spread) and a sick person's bed, towels and dishes (indirect spread). Short labels name each route. The sheet is mainly informational; the one persuasive device is the diseased-lung and droplet imagery, which makes the risk visible.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
BỆNH HO LAO
CÁCH TRUYỀN BỆNH

Gây Bởi Một Loại Vi-Trứng Phá Hủy Phổi

Lan Truyền Trực Tiếp
Ho
Hắt Hơi
Khạc Nhổ

Lan Truyền Gián Tiếp
Dứng Chung Đồ Vật của Người Bệnh

SP-996
```

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

```
TUBERCULOSIS
HOW THE DISEASE SPREADS

Caused by a kind of germ that destroys the lungs

Direct spread
Cough
Sneeze
Spit

Indirect spread
Using the belongings of the sick person in common

SP-996
```

'Vi-Trứng' is printed as written, probably for 'vi-trùng' (germ); 'Dứng Chung' is printed as written, read as 'dùng chung' (use in common).

[← Training and Education for Montagnard Refugees From Communism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/training-education-montagnard-refugees-1965-1969/) [Tuberculosis: Prevention (Bệnh Ho Lao: Phòng Bệnh) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tuberculosis-prevention-1965-1969/)

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