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title: Síntomas del Paludismo [Symptoms of Malaria]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-health-sintomas-del-paludismo-nicaragua-1943/
description: A health poster lists the symptoms of malaria with small drawings of a shivering man, a gaunt man, two women in an embrace.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Health poster in Spanish with drawings of people in a caricatured style and a nude child. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Síntomas del Paludismo \[Symptoms of Malaria\], 1943 US poster: A health poster lists the symptoms of malaria with small](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-health-sintomas-del-paludismo-nicaragua-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-health-sintomas-del-paludismo-nicaragua-1943.jpg)

# Síntomas del Paludismo [Symptoms of Malaria]

A health poster lists the symptoms of malaria with small drawings of a shivering man, a gaunt man, two women in an embrace, a swollen-bellied child outside a hut and a man refusing food, ending in a funeral procession carrying a coffin beside the word MUERTE in heavy type. The sequence runs from symptoms to death in one reading path, which is the fear appeal.

## 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

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

SÍNTOMAS
DEL PALUDISMO

frio y calentura.
pérdida
de
peso.
debilidad
y anemia.
pérdida del apetito
y vómitos.
hinchazón
del bazo

RESULTADO MUERTE

[signature:] AUGUSTO 1943

☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—538317
```

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

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

SYMPTOMS
OF MALARIA

chills and fever.
loss
of
weight.
weakness
and anemia.
loss of appetite
and vomiting.
swelling
of the spleen

RESULT: DEATH

[signature:] AUGUSTO 1943

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943
```

[← 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/) [El Paludismo \[Malaria\] (Nicaragua health poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-nicaragua-el-paludismo-1943/)

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