One infectious eye disease alone - trachoma - has left some two million sufferers blind around the world, like this old man at an eye clinic in Burma. The answer to this major public health problem is prevention-Before it is too lateto effect a cure - Digital Collections

One infectious eye disease alone - trachoma - has left some two million sufferers blind around the world, like this old man at an eye clinic in Burma. The answer to this major public health problem is prevention-Before it is too lateto effect a cure

Collection:: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):: Willard, N., photographer
Language(s):: English
French
Format:: Still image
Subject(s):: World Health Organization
Abstract:: A physician is examining the eyes of a blind man at an eye clinic in Burma. Verso: WHO/17071. SEARO. Eye diseases. SM 2.3-76.
Copyright:: WHO must be mentioned in accompanying text and/or given credit. This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
Extent:: 1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:: 101437177 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:: A013875
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101437177

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