Inoculation against leprosy


A mobile team examines and gives treatment to leprosy patients as part of a program funded by the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Health Organization. The team administers both sulphone injections and pills, but most patients prefer the fortnightly injections to the daily pills. Yasothorn district, Ubol Province, Thailand, 1963.


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