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PHIL Images From This Week

0016724 01/23/2015 08:00 AM EDT In this photo, Cambodian children are seen showing off their purple-marked pinkies, indicating that they were now protected against measles and rubella, having received a vaccination during a 2013 immunization campaign.

0018785 01/22/2015 08:00 AM EDT This photograph was captured by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) team member, and EIS Officer, Dr. Heidi Soeters during Guinea's 2014 Ebola outbreak, and depicted a Guinean public healthcare worker participating in a mock Ebola treatment protocol training session, whereupon, he'd crouched down on a blue plastic tarpaulin, and was in the process of handling what would have been an Ebola-contaminated cloth towel.

0000610 01/21/2015 08:00 AM EDT Magnified 500X, this 1971 photomicrograph depicted some of the histopathologic changes associated with an infection found in a brain tissue specimen due to the presence of free-living amoebae of the genus, Naegleria.

0018788 01/20/15 08:00AM EDT This photograph was captured by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) team member, and EIS Officer, Dr. Heidi Soeters during Guinea's 2014 Ebola outbreak, and depicts a World Health Organization (WHO) staff member who was also deployed to the West African region, as he was conducting a class in how to properly don personal protective equipment (PPE).

0018613 01/19/15 08:00AM EDT This photograph depicts a young Asian-American schoolboy who was in the process of creating a drawing, and was choosing from a box of crayons. It is important to know that these objects are known as fomites, which can act as transmitters of illnesses, for viruses and bacteria are able to remain alive on their surfaces after being handled by an ill child, who can then inadvertently transfer these "germs" to another child who subsequently handles these schoolroom objects.

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