![El Paludismo [Malaria], 1943 US poster: Spanish-language health poster for Nicaragua](../images/us-nicaragua-el-paludismo-1943.jpg)
El Paludismo [Malaria] (Nicaragua health poster)
Spanish-language health poster for Nicaragua: a red zigzag graph labelled December and April runs behind text stating that malaria is widespread, spread by Anopheles mosquitoes, and causes chills, fever, anemia, weakness and death. The fear appeal is the line that sick children cannot study and adults cannot work; the closing lines then give treatment and prevention (no standing water, no mosquitoes, no malaria).
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; artist Augusto; printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office
- 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 (US federal government work: printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office, NARA RG 44)
Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pública, Nicaragua; artist Augusto; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44.
Text on the object
SERVICIO COOPERATIVO INTER- AMERICANO DE SALUD PUBLICA. DIRECCION GENERAL DE SANIDAD. NICARAGUA. A.C. EL PALUDISMO DICIEMBRE es UNA ENFERMEDAD MUY EXTENDIDA EN NICARAGUA. es TRANSMITIDO POR LOS MOSQUITOS ANOFELES Y MOTIVA FRIOS, CALENTURA, ANEMIA, DEBILIDAD Y MUERTE. LOS NIÑOS QUE PADECEN MALARIA NO PUEDEN ESTUDIAR, LOS ADULTOS NO PUEDEN TRABAJAR ABRIL PUEDE CURARSE CON ATEBRINA. QUININA O PLASMO- QUINA. LA MALARIA PUEDE SER PREVENIDA; SIN AGUA ESTANCADA NO HAY MOSQUITOS. SIN MOSQUITOS NO HAY MALARIA [signature:] AUGUSTO 1943 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—538317
INTER-AMERICAN COOPERATIVE SERVICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF HEALTH. NICARAGUA. MALARIA DECEMBER is A VERY WIDESPREAD DISEASE IN NICARAGUA. is TRANSMITTED BY ANOPHELES MOSQUITOES AND causes chills, fever, anemia, weakness and death. CHILDREN WHO SUFFER FROM MALARIA CANNOT STUDY, ADULTS CANNOT WORK APRIL IT CAN BE CURED WITH ATEBRIN, QUININE OR PLASMOQUINE. MALARIA CAN BE PREVENTED: WITHOUT STANDING WATER THERE ARE NO MOSQUITOES. WITHOUT MOSQUITOES THERE IS NO MALARIA. [signature:] AUGUSTO 1943 [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943
