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U.S. Federal Information on Foreign Countries: Health

This is primarily a guide to U.S. federal government information resources describing conditions in foreign countries, but also provides links to selected NGO and IGO resources which also describe international conditions.

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This 2009 image depicts a healthcare practitioner as he was administering the H1N1 live attenuated intranasal vaccine (LAIV) to an Asian man. Using a small syringe, he was delivering the vaccine mist into the man’s right nostril.

By Sarvodaya Shramadana from Colombo, Sri Lanka (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The nurse in this 2006 image was in the process of administering an intramuscular injection into the left shoulder muscle of this 13-year old boy. He was assisting in the injection by holding up his shirt sleeve in order to expose the immunization site.

Indian Air Force physician Bharathi Mahapatra examines a young boy’s heart rate at the Gunungsitoli General Hospital.