Guatemala 2015 Dr Rodolfo Robles and River Blindness
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date : 6th Novmber 2015
- one value
- Designed by : Ziomara de León
- Printing: TNGA (Taller Nacional de Grabados en Acero)
- Print process : lithography
- stamp format height 56mm x width 30mm
- Perforations : 12½ x 12½ (line)
Centenary of the Discovery of the Cause of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
Sheet stamp
Q6.50 ~ stamp of December 12 1962 in the Guatemalan physicians series, bearing portrait of Dr Rodolfo Robles, who first reported the ocular form of the discase in 1915
Notes: onchocerciasis is named as ‘Oncocercosis’ on the 1962 stamp. It is carried by a nematode worm in association with a black-fly
