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1975 Bangladesh. Joke headline

Photo credit: Bruce G Weniger
Source: CDC PHIL #5546/Bruce G Weniger

Bangladesh
1975

Enthusiastic new WHO epidemiologists en route from a briefing in Delhi to Dhaka. Ron Waldman (right) holds a sham newspaper commissioned by Marc Strassburg (left), announcing the eradication of smallpox. Jean-Pierre Bachmann is seated next to Waldman.