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- 1946-05-01 - 1948-12-30 (Creation)
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CNRRA / 61
Shanghai, China -- May 1946
The vaccine, packed in dry ice, will be rushed by plane to Hainan Island and other points where rinderpest, China's most destructive livestock disease, has reached epidemic proportions Left to right: Dr Berislav Borcic, UNRRA Chief Medical Officer; Dr Harry E Furguson [ie Ferguson], UNRRA Veterinary Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; Mr Benjamin H Kizer, Advisor to the Director, UNRRA China Mission; and Dr Robert Reisnerger, UNRRA Veterinarian, who flew with the vaccine from the United States (Photo by Wipperman)
Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
China
Farming -- China
Veterinary drugs
Crates -- China -- Shanghai
Borcic, Berislav
Ferguson, Harry E
Kizer, Benjamin H (Benjamin Hamilton), 1878-1978
Reisnerger, Robert
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration -- People
RM
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Copy of: S-0801-0001-07-28: Refrigerated crates containing one million doses of rinderpest vaccine are examined by UNRRA officials
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Refrigerated crates containing one million doses of rinderpest vaccine are examined by UNRRA officials aboard the UNRRA-chartered Pacific Overseas Airlines plane which arrived in Shanghai from the United States