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  • The life cycle of the mosquito that causes malaria fever. Colour lithograph by the Division of Health Education, ca, 2000.
  • The malaria mosquito forming the eye-sockets of a skull, representing death from malaria. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Mwera, Zanzibar, Tanzania: an African man stands in a river using a ladle to dip for mosquito larvae. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • A woman and her child lie beneath a mosquito net: preventing malaria in Senegal. Colour lithograph by DNSR (?), ca. 2000.
  • A family beneath a mosquito net: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Division of Malaria Control, ca. 2000.
  • An illustrated numbered guide on how to treat mosquito nets to prevent malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Aventis Environmental Science, ca. 2000.
  • A mother tucks a mosquito net around her child's bed: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2010.
  • A mosquito and a man in overalls using an anti-malaria spray: malaria prevention in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A mosquito and a man in overalls using an anti-malaria spray: malaria prevention in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A pregnant woman receiving anti-malaria medication and lying beneath a mosquito net: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2003.
  • The larva of a culicine mosquito hanging down from the surface of the water. Photograph of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.
  • Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944.
  • A child asleep under a mosquito net and treating the net: malaria prevention in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Malaria Control Programme, ca. 2000.
  • A mother tucks a mosquito net around her child's bed: preventing malaria in children in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2010.
  • A mosquito that transmits malaria with images of how to prevent it: the Malaria Control Programme in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health , 2004.
  • Secunderabad, India: the room in which Ronald Ross attributed the transmission of the malaria parasite to the anopheles mosquito. Photograph by Raja Deen Dayal & Sons, 19--.
  • A man sitting in a tree with a pipe leading from his mouth to a hole in the trunk (destroying a mosquito breeding area ?). Photograph, 1880/1910.
  • Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.
  • Brighton (near Pitch Lake), Trinidad: a mosquito net for head and neck is modelled by a man wearing a hat, with face exposed, standing on wooden steps. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: a West Indian man sprays larvicide into a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A nurse hands anti-malaria pills to a pregnant woman; two pregnant women sleeping under mosquito nets: preventing malaria during pregnancy in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2008.
  • A message about how AIDS is not spread including illustrations of a woman with a mosquito bite to a person coughing and sneezing; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Zimbabwe. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: rising smoke as two West Indian men burn grass away from the side of a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Ways in which AIDS cannot be transmitted including a woman on a telephone, people sitting in a stream, using public toilets, kissing, shaking hands, sharing food and mosquito bites; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Laos. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Bengali version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • Four illustrations showing the dangers of donating contaminated blood and transmitting AIDS through injecting, unsafe sex and pregnancy; a further 4 illustrations show ways in which AIDS is not transmitted from mosquito bites to sharing food; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.