ID#: 7426
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In this image from 1975, these Bangladeshi fishermen had pulled up alongside a launch, and were selling their catch to passengers on the larger boat. World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist, Dr. Daniel Tarantola, was standing shirtless, on the large boat’s edge. In 1974, Dr. Tarantola was appointed as a Smallpox Eradication Team Leader in Bangladesh. This image was part of a series provided by former Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer, Stanley O. Foster, MD, MPH, and captured by Pierre Claquin, MD, BAC, who at the time was a member of the WHO Smallpox Eradication Program. The photographic montage entitled, “The Story of One Smallpox Jeep”, which depicted the travails faced by the Jeep, and its occupants of public health practitioners, as they road through the Bangladesh countryside in an attempt to eradicate smallpox from the country.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ World Health Organization; Stanley O. Foster M.D., M.P.H.
Creation Date: 1975
Photo Credit: Pierre Claquin, M.D., B.A.C.
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Copyright Restrictions: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions.