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Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

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Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

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Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

01/01/1958 00:00:00

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Headline Iraq: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat, 1958

Description 1958: Dr Luigi Mara spent the last four years in a relentless mosquito hunt all across malaria-ridden Kurdistan in Iraq. He managed to win the confidence of the Kurds, and was known among them as "Dr Malaria". For fifteen years, Dr Malaria has led a "nomadic life" himself, going "on his rounds" in Eritrea, India, Switzerland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, the Sudan and Iraq - first on behalf of the health department of Italy and then as a malariologist of the World Health Organization. In 1954, Iraq, worried that her economic development was threatened by malaria applied to WHO for help. And the most seriously threatened part of the country, Kurdistan, was entrusted to Dr Malaria.

In the territory covered by Dr Malaria there lives a strange religious sect, secluded, inaccessible to most foreigners. They are called Yesidis and live in a small loop of Kurdistan that pushes into Syria. It has been estimated that there are some 70,000 Yesidis, led by their tribal chief, Sheik Thassyn (here seen in conversation with Dr Malaria).

Asset date 01/01/1958

Country, area, WHO office Iraq

WHO Region EMRO

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