Diseases

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Diseases

  • UF Illness
  • UF Sickness

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PHOTO0000001564

English transcription: Insect-Borne Diseases. The people who live in the district around Sabzevar, about 400 miles from Teheran in Iran, have plenty of experiences of diseases that are carried by insects. Many of them suffer repeatedly from malaria, carried by anopheles mosquitoes. Trachoma, a painful eye disease, is all too common, especially among children, and it is carried, at least to some extent, by flies. Then, there are relapsing fever carried by ticks, and leishmaniasis, transmitted by sandflies. There is also typhus, carried by the body louse. Since 1954, a WHO-team, at the request of the Iran government, have been carrying out a project in the area against insect-borne diseases. Donkeys loaded with water urns are the only traffic the team encounters on the lonely roads through the Persian highlands.
Description: A vast, mountainous landscape, bereft of any vegetation. Three white donkeys, trudging up a dirt road, each laden down wth dozens of earthen water jugs contained in netting made of knotted rope. A man leading them, wearing a white turban and loose dark garment, carrying a long stick.
Location: Sabzevar, District of.

PHOTO0000000893

English transcription: Operational Seminar at Gounou-Gaya. Inside courtyard of the house belonging to the Sub-Prefect of Gounou-Gaya. It is a richman's house as the owner owns the village bar. The problem of polluted well water which carries disease still remains the same.
French transcription: Séminaire Opérationnel du Gounou-Gaya. Cour intérieure d'une maison de la sous-préfecture de Gounou-Gaya. Il s'agit d'une maison de riches le propiétaire étant tenancier du bar du village. Pourtant là aussi le problème de l'eau de puits polluée porteuse de maladies reste entier.
Description: Two bare footed todlers in squatting position are drinking from a large bowl-shaped basin. The left boy uses a bowl to drink from, while the other drinks from his hands. A rooster passes by in the foreground. At the back there is a trunk of a large tree that has cloths hanging on it. Next to the tree part of a steel handcart is visible. Other utensils, a shoe and a hat are squattered around the place.
Location: Gouno-Gaya.