A YOUNG BOY STANDS NONCHALANTLY in the street in the village of Farimaneh, Persia, while a World Health Organisation field worker dusts his clothing with insecticide. In the Sabzevar district, about 400 miles from Teheran, insect-borne diseases such as malaria and trachoma are common. For the last three years W.H.O. has been conducting a pilot project in an attempt to eradicate these and other dirt-bred diseases. In this village 400 persons were treated, and their clothing and bedding disinfected by the W.H.O.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28016, 10 July 1956, Page 11
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82A YOUNG BOY STANDS NONCHALANTLY in the street in the village of Farimaneh, Persia, while a World Health Organisation field worker dusts his clothing with insecticide. In the Sabzevar district, about 400 miles from Teheran, insect-borne diseases such as malaria and trachoma are common. For the last three years W.H.O. has been conducting a pilot project in an attempt to eradicate these and other dirt-bred diseases. In this village 400 persons were treated, and their clothing and bedding disinfected by the W.H.O. Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28016, 10 July 1956, Page 11
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