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GB 0809 Admin - Adminstration
- 14 - Press, publicity and communications
  - 03 - Press agency photographs: British contributions to tropical health relating to the opening of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases

Ref No	GB 0809 Admin/14/03/02
Level	Item
Title	Professor Shortt and volunteer patient
Date	May 1951
Description	Caption on reverse: Professor Shortt (right) who is famous for his discovery of the insect carrier of the deadly tropical disease kala-azar, and for his great work on malaria, is now studying the development of the parasite causing malaria. He has discovered that when a person is first infected with the disease, although he does not feel ill for some days, the malaria is developing meanwhile in his liver. Human volunteers are used for this work, and here, infected adult female mosquitoes are being held over a volunteer's skin so that he will be bitten by them. Later, a small piece of the patient's liver will be removed by operation for research workers to study.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English
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