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- A moment of discomfort - but it will ensure that he will never suffer: the wasting disease of tuberculosis. Vaccination must be a regular feature of child care, preferably under a program which forms an integral part of any country's health services1
- A physician uses a stethoscope to listen to the heart of a young boy1
- A sturdy- looking six-year-old child of the Turkana. The scars on his abdomen testify to blood-letting rituals1
- For these boys at an Indian school, early preventive treatment for incipient trachoma will probably safeguard their young eyesight for a whole lifetime1
- Immunize and protect your child1
- One of several cases found in Zaire in 1970 which the Moscow laboratory was able to diagnose as monkeypox in humans1
- The doctor takes throat swabs for laboratory examination1
- The last case of smallpox on the Asian sub-continent, discovered on 16 October 1975, was a little girl living in Bangladesh. This was also the last known case of the more virulent form of smallpo, variola major1
- The shadow of obesity hangs over this boy's childhood1
- This little Ghanaian child is one of the lucky ones - her mother was able to bring her to [the] hospital. Communicable diseases such as whooping cough and measles are reponsible for 30 per cent of certified deaths and 60 percent of hospital admissions in Ghana. But very few of the children who catch measles ever reach a hospital1
- This little boy is having an eye check-up which should ensure that any threat to his sight is recognized in time and prevented. Many thousands of less fortunate children go blind unnecessarily every year for want of simple precautions or low-cost treatment1
- Trained Ayurvedic practitioners treating a girl with rheumatoid arthritis. Medical ethics today has ceased to be a matter for physicians alone,but is rather the concern of the whole community1
- Under careful supervision, this Sudan schoolboy is treating his classmates' eyes for trachoma. This will ensure that treatment countinues after the trachoma control team leaves the district1
- [Injection of a sulfone-oil suspension]1