ID#: 7474
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Captured in 1975, this photograph depicted the activity seen outside the local smallpox office in this riverine Bangladesh town. Note the communications antennae that had been erected to facilitate communications between eradication team members. 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 World Health Organization’s (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.