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The Global Impact of Respiratory Disease – Second Edition
Forum of International Respiratory Societies
Print ISBN: 9781849840873; e-ISBN: 9781849840880
Cite this publication as: Forum of International Respiratory Societies. The Global Impact of
Respiratory Disease – Second Edition. Sheffi eld, European Respiratory Society, 2017.
Image credits
Front cover. Mother with her child hospitalised for respiratory disease in South Africa.
© Dr Rudzani Muloiwa.
Page 9. The air we breathe. © 2012 SLR club, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Pages 10/11. A man in India consults a physician after a potential infection with tuberculosis.
© 2011 Benoit Matsha-Carpentier/IFRC, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Page 13. Lung testing as part of the Healthy Lungs for Life campaign at the European
Respiratory Society 2016 Congress in London. © Jared Pepallo.
Page 15. Family members in Zambia listen as a doctor shows them how to manage their
daughter’s asthma. © 2012 Malcolm Spence/On Call Africa, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Page 17. A young boy takes a breathing treatment after his fi rst bout with pneumonia in
southeast New Mexico, USA. © 2010 Amber Willier, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Pages 18/19. A nurse vaccinates a four-month-old baby in the Nueva Segovia state of
Nicaragua on the northern border with Honduras. © 2008 Adrian Brooks, Courtesy of
Photoshare.
Page 20. In Cambodia, a technician prepares to load TB liquid cultures into a BACTEC MGIT
machine. © 2011 David Snyder, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Page 21. A digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image depicts a large
group of orange-coloured, rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. © National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Courtesy of CDC Public Health Image
Library.
Pages 22/23. A healthcare worker administering a dose of Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG)
vaccine to a newborn infant during an outdoor immunisation session in Madagascar.
© Dr Carolyn Sein, Courtesy of CDC Public Health Image Library.
Page 25. Workers at a stone crushing mine in India, working without adequate safety measures,
putting them at risk for conditions like silicosis and lung cancer. © 2013 Biswajit, Courtesy of
Photoshare.
Page 27. Smog fi lls a busy street in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. © 2016 Min Zaw, Courtesy of
Photoshare.
Page 30. A Vietnamese man smoking from a long wooden cylindrical pipe in Hanoi. © Sheila
Porter, M.P.A., Courtesy of CDC Public Health Image Library.
Page 32. SARS specimens being processed. © James Gathany, Courtesy of CDC Public Health
Image Library.
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