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造成肺結核病的主要原因是由於傳染了結核桿菌和人體抵抗力的減弱… (Cause of tuberculosis -- the tubercle bacillus), 1953

造成肺結核病的主要原因是由於傳染了結核桿菌和人體抵抗力的減弱… (Cause of tuberculosis -- the tubercle bacillus), Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1953

In 1953, the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters. This poster shows a doctor looking into a microscope at Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes TB.


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Poster with a cityscape featuring Tiananmen, a farm, factories, and a Chinese flag on each side of a red star in the sky, text in the middle.

In 1953 the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters that sought to educate the public on the causes, symptoms, treatments, and methods of preventing the spread of TB.


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