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Cuban postage stamp promoting El Mundo Unido Contra La Malaria campaign

  • Cuban postage stamp promoting The World United Against Malaria campaign

  • 1962

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Cuban postage stamp printed to promote world anti-malaria campaign. Depicts a chinchona plant and chemical formulas for chloroquine and primaquine, medications used to treat malaria.

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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 1

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“Cuban Postage Stamp Promoting El Mundo Unido Contra La Malaria Campaign.” Cuba, 1962. Witco Stamp Collection, Box 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ms35t8620.

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