A series of illustrations commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) showing various diseases as anime characters has caught on in the US after being uploaded on the meme sharing app 9GAG.
The series, launched in 2018 to build public health awareness among those aged 35 or younger, has so far introduced illustrations for 26 diseases, including COVID-19, which was part of last week's issue.
Each reimagined illness appears on the cover of the magazine Disease, with their appearance, outfit, accessories and even the background art representing aspects of the disease, while the cover blurbs offer tips on how to stay healthy.
In response, Chiyou (蚩尤), the artist behind illustrations for COVID-19, Ebola and the plague, said that taking diseases out of a textbook and giving them a human form makes them more approachable and easier to understand.
Say HANa (林花), who spent a month creating the illustrations for syphilis and rubella, said that her greatest challenge was reconciling the diseases' sometimes gruesome symptoms with their "cute" personifications.
On Friday night, the CDC reacted to its sudden popularity by thanking people in a Facebook post and announcing that it plans to feature the illustrations in a desk calendar for next year.
Despite criticism that the pictures make light of deadly diseases, the center said that people are enjoying the campaign, and even learning something from them.
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COVID-19
And Covid-19 has no gender
And design is base on hacker, and the chair is the look of the virus with the tentacle/hand sticking out
Name: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Nickname: Covid-19,Wuhan pneumonia
Gender: Unknown
High: Unknown
Weigh: Unknown
Birthday: 12/??
Zodiac: ??
Personality: Mysterious Hacker Appear suddenly in december 2019, and spread all over the world, no set personality always switching, always trying new thing.
Very adept at disguising and going to multiple please to spread disease, so far no one has seen the true Covid-19
Like: Crowd, Disguise, Prank, Lazy people, Big event
Dislike: Washing hand, Wearing mask, medicine
Word from
Ms. Taiwan CDC and Mr. Quarantine
CDC: We still have a long way to go to fight Covid-19, Everyone work together and we can safely past this pandemic
Quarantine: Wash hand often, when going into crowd area or using public transportation wear mask, protect yourself and protect other.
Acute hepatitis
Zika
Ebola
Rubella
Chikungunya Fever
Syphallis
Lyme Disease
Plague
Legionarre Disease
Mers
Tsutugamushi Disease
Pertussis
Rabies
Varicella & Herpes Zoster
Viral Gastroenteritis
Taiwan CDC
Quarantine
Well, if people interest, here is artist more detail of some of the thing that are in the DDD(Document onf Defeating Disease) Book
Show the artist concept, a comic and other information.
Japanese Encephalitis
Group name: EV
EV is spread by female fly, so it's why is female
Taiwan has 3 type of Fly, Shiro, Three ring and round.
This disease is common in crowd and spread quickly, so make his design a person that likes crowd and food
His design is a street dancer, the tatoo on his body are the type of food that can comon cause the disease, and arrow pointing to his behind, because it can spread from feces
His pants side and shoe also has english name, shoe has Norovirus
Varicella and Herpes
Varicella causing dots to appear all over, so people with it is common called flower face, so why flower design
The glove and other accessory are base on the dot that appear on people with the disease
The boy has the snake type pattern, because herpes is also called snake skin
The girl glove has Reyes Syndrome, and the hand is in claw pose, because people with it like to scatch themself
Rabies cause death by invading the central nervous system, so make him a conductor that focus on punk
The spiky and long coat is base on the actual look of the virus
He has LR on his chest tatoo meaning Lyssavirus Rhabdovirdae
The band member are vector, so each has a different animal face mask
The gold dot are what the virus look like, the bubble like coat is to show that it spread through coughing and saliva
The gold strand are the fiber in the lung, which get destroy by the virus
The design of a flute player is because people with the disease, when breathing will make a high note whistling noise like a flute
The head piece is base on the various sympton that person will get, heavy coughing, throwing up, etc.
The color purple is chose because children getting the hundred day cough, will turn purple due to lack of oxygen and eventual die
With the coming release of the calender/artbook~~
More character detail and concept have been release
With the coming release of the calender/artbook~~
More character detail and concept have been release
Plauge
Female
Height: 175cm
Birthdate: 9/22
Zodiac: Virgo
Personality: Mysterious, cool, changing constantly, hard to pin down
Like to tell other fortune with own personal tarot card
Like: Black, Mouse, rodents, fortune telling and crow
Dislike: Doctor, anti-flea medicine, antibiotic and people with sunny personality
Character design idea
The idea is to go with a dark type character, because of the 25 million death in the 14th century due to the plague or black death
1.The outfit motif is the western view of grim reaper, with skeleton type outfit and scythe, the black finger "glove" was a sympton back then, the "black" death part, the skirt part is base on crow feather
2.The hat have the mask of past doctor she has defeated, the emblem are bynzentime and background was their coin to symbolize the first appearance in the Byzentine empire in BC 541~542
3. Her tarot card are lung lobe, red blood cell, mitochondrion and rose, the first three are different symptom and situation depending on severity of the disease, and the rose is if you survive.
Syphillis
Female
Height: 167cm
Weight: 52
Birthday 3/3
Zodiac: Pisces
Personality: Gentle and cute, naive and have a imaginative view on relationship, like the feeling of falling in love, easy falling in love(No gender specific) but when seperating will hate for a long time, and find chance to stab you,
Hobby is meeting new people and sleeping
Like: Classic music, Red fruit, Ruby and pottery
Dislike: Person that is not loyal, antibiotic and her pantyhose getting torn
Design ideafor Syphillis
The name Syphillis is from the 15th century, when a poet and doctor name Girolamo Fracastoro made a story of a shepard named Syphillis that made god angry and punish with the disease after that name, the disease will make you smell and limb grow thin, so shepard is the idea.
1. The shepard hat and the lace that ties it has her name, her hairstyle spiral is the same as the shape of the disease, the silver staff with sheep skeleton is homage to prior to antibiotic, mercury was used as cure and not succesful
2.Her hairpin and ring are sympton that person with the disease will have, her corset have symbol that look like sex organ, and the red dots on her outfit are secondary sympton that can be seen
3. The bed is symbolizing that it is usually sexually transmit, the mother and child sheep is that it is possible to pass it to your children if you have
Rubella
Male
Height: 190
Weight 80
Birthday 2/19
Personality: Loner, quick to anger, always rushing, only doing thing for about 3 minute before losing interest, easily bored, although childhood friend with Measle, doesn't like because people keep confusing them, so hate Measle, have terrible eye sight,
Have a habit of cleaning glasses, hobby is collecting angel shape accessories
Like: pomegranate, red dot, angel shape accessory, wind chime
Dislike: Vaccine, measle and baby
Design idea
The outfit idea is base on Friedrich Hoffman, the person that first described Rubella
1.Because people confuse Measle and Rubella, so their stat are similiar, the english latin for Rubella means little red, so that's where the outfit red dot is from
2.The various red gem decoration are base on the symptom, the ear and eye and neck will have red and swell lymph node, also might appear in face and neck
The red dot last for about 3 day, so why there is 3 red sun button
3. Because pregnant woman can pass the disease to children with severe symptom from death to catarat and other
Promegranate is symbolizing having many children, the angel baby are symbolizing children with hearing problem and the eye buttom is catarat and other eye problem
Zika Virus
Female
Height 169
Weight 56
Personality: Straight forward, easily angered, but forget anger quickly, when thing don't go her way, she explode, have a tendency to start mumbling when angry, although quick to anger, alwarys place her friend in first, is online friend with Dengue Fever and Japanese Encephalitis.
Hobby is looking for new red wine, like to drink and talk with friends over red wine
Like: Water, summer, red, wine tasting
dislike: Anti-mostique inscene, fly swapper, anti fly lotion and hang over
Design idea
Because only female mostiqueto suck blood to give disease, and in Taiwan there is only two type of mostiqueto(Egyptian and white line) so she has trait from both
1.The sleeveless shirt that cover neck and the gem on the neck are base on the shape of the virus, the white line on the shirt are trait of the Egyptian mostiqueto, the red dot/glitter are symptom of the disease, the sleeve of the shirt are base on design of mostiqueto wings
2. The fire headscarf are fever that is a symptom, the strange skull earing is a common, along with the peacock feather and eye make up are symptom(Not sure how to translate into english complete)
3. The red belt is to see like a mostiqueto that has just sucked blood, and the pattern in the pant are leg pantern of both type of mostiquto
4. The pose of hand to face is to show sucking blood, and the sleeve accessory is dendritic cells and how it spread
Male
Height: 173
Weight: 64
Birthday 6/7
Personality: Quiet, keep a low profile, get along with people, not alot of emotion change, like to watch comedy and wild life, but not laugh, has camels as pets
Like: camel, Comedy, fable, singing, Hookah
Dislike: Washing hand, heated camel milk, parret and too long eyelash
Character design idea
Because the disease is founded in Saudie Arabie and the name, so the outfit is base on traditional middle eastern outfit
His face have two main thing, the long eye lash are base on camel(They have long eye lash) and the blue eye is base on Nazar, a traditional middle eastern protection accessory against the evil eye.
1. The crown is the shape of the disease, the facemask and earing is that it has to do with camel and salivia
2. The cloak ahs the camel
3. The shirt has a totem in the shape of the virus, it being on the chest is also where the big symptom is
4. THe hookah is a water base smoke, so it is saying that by breating in water droplet with disease you can get it, the hookah is also decorated with camel
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