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title: Nacimiento y Desarrollo del Zancudo
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-health-nacimiento-desarrollo-zancudo-nicaragua-1943/
description: A public-health chart of the mosquito life cycle, showing eggs, larva, pupa and adult, with the standing-water places where it breeds (puddles, ponds.
section: Collection
---

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[![Nacimiento y Desarrollo del Zancudo, 1943 US poster: A public-health chart of the mosquito life cycle, showing eggs, larva](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-health-nacimiento-desarrollo-zancudo-nicaragua-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-health-nacimiento-desarrollo-zancudo-nicaragua-1943.jpg)

# Nacimiento y Desarrollo del Zancudo

A public-health chart of the mosquito life cycle, showing eggs, larva, pupa and adult, with the standing-water places where it breeds (puddles, ponds, wells, tanks, swamps). It is instructional rather than persuasive. The only technique that fits at all is the science-looking illustration lending authority to the text (transfer, closest fit); it states no claim beyond the life cycle.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NACIMIENTO Y DESARROLLO DEL ZANCUDO
EN FORMA DE HUEVOS
LARVA
CRISÁLIDA
Y MOSQUITO
Y EN LUGARES REMANSOS COMO
CHARCAS
POZOS, PILAS Y PANTANOS

Servicio Cooperativo Inter-Americano de Salud Publica. Dirección General de Sanidad. Nicaragua A.A.C.
[signed:] Augusto 1943
[imprint:] U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-538317

[Translation: Birth and development of the mosquito: in the form of eggs; larva; pupa; and mosquito; and in standing places such as puddles, wells, tanks and swamps.]
```

[← Métodos Preventivos Contra el Paludismo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-health-metodos-preventivos-paludismo-nicaragua-1943/) ['El Paludismo es Transmitido por Zancudos' \[Malaria Is Transmitted by Mosquitoes\] (El Paludismo Transmitido Zancudos) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-health-paludismo-transmitido-zancudos-nicaragua-1943/)

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