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title: '''El Paludismo es Transmitido por Zancudos'' [Malaria Is Transmitted by Mosquitoes] (El Paludismo Transmitido Zancudos)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-health-paludismo-transmitido-zancudos-nicaragua-1943/
description: A night scene shows a sick man in bed, a dashed arrow running from him to a magnified mosquito and on to a sleeping infant in a cot.
section: Collection
---

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[!['El Paludismo es Transmitido por Zancudos' \[Malaria Is Transmitted by Mosquitoes\], 1943 US poster: A night scene shows a sick](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-health-paludismo-transmitido-zancudos-nicaragua-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-health-paludismo-transmitido-zancudos-nicaragua-1943.jpg)

# 'El Paludismo es Transmitido por Zancudos' [Malaria Is Transmitted by Mosquitoes] (El Paludismo Transmitido Zancudos)

A night scene shows a sick man in bed, a dashed arrow running from him to a magnified mosquito and on to a sleeping infant in a cot, under a headline that names mosquitoes as the carriers of malaria. The vulnerable child placed at the end of the arrow carries the fear appeal; the picture otherwise states the transmission chain.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
EL PALUDISMO ES
TRANSMITIDO POR
ZANCUDOS

SERVICIO COOPERATIVO INTER-
AMERICANO DE SALUD PUBLICA.
DIRECCION GENERAL DE SANIDAD.
NICARAGUA. A.C.

[signature:] AUGUSTO 1943

[foot imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—530317
```

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

```
MALARIA IS TRANSMITTED BY MOSQUITOES

INTER-AMERICAN COOPERATIVE SERVICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF HEALTH.
NICARAGUA. C.A.

[signature:] AUGUSTO 1943

[foot imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—530317
```

[← 戰機萬架 掃蕩三島 (Ten Thousand Warplanes Sweep the Three Islands), U.S. Office of War Information poster in Chinese](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-government-ten-thousand-warplanes-chinese-poster-1944/) [Se Puede Curar de Paludismo y Proteger a su Familia \[Malaria Can Be Cured and Your Family Protected\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-health-se-puede-curar-paludismo-nicaragua-1943/)

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