The Fred L. Soper Papers
- Title:
- [Yellow fever vaccination in Belem, Brazil]
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- Description:
- A family about to travel into the Amazon forest is inoculated against yellow fever.
- Although Brazil and most of its neighboring republics have eradicated the mosquito vector of the urban form of this dreaded disease, inoculation with 17D virus vaccine is the only protection against the jungle form which persists among primates and tree-living mosquitoes in the tropical rain forests of Latin America.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (271,146 Bytes)
- Date Supplied:
- 1930s
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Rights:
- Courtesy of Fred L. Soper.
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- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Brazil
- Yellow Fever Vaccine
- Exhibit Categories:
- Fighting Yellow Fever and Malaria in Brazil, 1928-1942
- Biographical Information
- Box Number:
- 28
- Unique Identifier:
- VVBBBR
- Document Type:
- Photographic prints
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- image/tif
- Physical Condition:
- Good
- Series: Photographs, 1911-1973
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- Folder: Yellow Fever Eradication in the Americas
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- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2003-03-12
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