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
![Síntomas del Paludismo [Symptoms of Malaria], 1943 US poster: A health poster lists the symptoms of malaria with small](../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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pública, Dirección General de Sanidad, Nicaragua (printed by U.S. Government Printing Office); artist Augusto
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pública, Nicaragua; printed by U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268213, 44-PF-854d).
Text on the object
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
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
