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Propaganda presents exterminating mosquitoes as "patriotic."
Date: 1948
Public health
Epidemics & disease
Racism/white supremacy
Movies and film shorts focus on stories of "patriots" exterminating massive insects in order to stop communism. In this case, malaria is linked with "Communism," and extermination with "American patriotism."
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