Title:

Senior personnel of the Malaria Service of the Northeast [MSNE], in front of the MSNE laboratory in Aracati, Ceara, Brazil

Date:

1939

Description:

Pictured from left to right: Dr. Damasceno Costa (MSNE), Dr. M. V. Hargett (Visitor, U.S. Public Health Service), Dr. Marshall A. Barber (Consultant to the MSNE), Dr. D. Bruce Wilson (Rockefeller Foundation and Field Director of the MSNE), Dr. Paulo C. A. Antunes (MSNE), an unidentified local resident, Dr. Manuel Ferreira (National Department of Public Health, Brazil and seconded to the MSNE), Dr. Oliveira Castro (medical entomologist and seconded to the MSNE) by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro.. Dr. Soper (not pictured) was the director of the MSNE but spent most of his time in Rio de Janeiro.

Location:

Box: 28

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Brazil

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

VVBBCG

NLM ID:

101584650X26

Profiles Collection:

The Fred L. Soper Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584650X26

Story Section:

Fighting Yellow Fever and Malaria in Brazil, 1928-1942