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  • Bottles, bins etc. in which mosquitoes breed. Colour lithograph by Menendez, 1981.
  • Annaba, Algeria: power spraying the exterior of thatched huts to prevent the departure of mosquitoes. Photograph, 1944.
  • Annaba, Algeria: power spraying the exterior of thatched huts to prevent the departure of mosquitoes. Photograph, 1944.
  • 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.
  • Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • Malaria parasites in the tissues of anopheles mosquitoes, as seen through a microscope. Colour lithograph by W. Griggs after R. Fielding-Ould, ca. 1905.
  • A woman lying with her baby unprotected from the mosquitoes surrounding them: preventing malaria in Kenya. Lithograph by Division of Health Education, Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • You can't catch H.I.V. from.. : cups glasses cutlery towels toilet seats mosquitoes coughing sneezing shaking hands giving blood kissing / designed by Simon Impey and Jon Daniel.
  • A pot, a two-headed multi-legged creature and smaller symbols relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including mosquitoes, hands shaking and a hospital bed; an advertisement issued by the Indian Committee of Youth Organizations. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Social activities that carry no risk of AIDS including two men shaking hands, sharing food at a table, sharing water, sleeping together and mosquitoes; an advertisement produced as part of the Programme National de Lutte Contre le SIDA in Togo. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • Two slender biting insects (mosquitos). Coloured etching by R. P. Nodder.
  • Mosquito
  • Mosquito (unknown species)
  • Mosquito (Anopheles stephensi)
  • Mosquito egg surface, SEM
  • Aedes aegypti mosquito crop
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: a man wearing face-protection and gloves to protect against mosquitos. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: a man wearing face-protection and gloves to protect against mosquitos. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • A mosquito, and a bottle of Veha anti-mosquito lotion: advertisement for the lotion. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Dissection of malariated mosquito, R. Ross.
  • Mosquito heads with green fluorescent eyes
  • Malaria parasites in a mosquito midgut
  • Mosquito heads with green fluorescent eyes
  • Malaria parasites in a mosquito midgut
  • A dissection of malariated mosquito, R. Ross.
  • Transgenic mosquito expresing GFP in its eyes
  • Scales on a mosquito leg (Anopheles stephensi)
  • Public health poster - mosquito and tiger
  • A giant mosquito trying to attack a French soldier who is protected by a mosquito net. Colour lithograph after H. Stephany, 1917.