Summary: An avian influenza epidemic will almost certainly begin where poultry is slaughtered in poorly managed, unsanitary conditions. This semi-dramatized program starts in rural Cambodia, where a mutated H5N1 virus spreads easily from an infected chicken into the local population and prompts a swift response from World Health Organization field workers. Depicting the WHO containment strategy in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Flying home from Hawaii, where he has met with a group of Chinese business contacts, salesman Michael Peterson begins to feel ill. This program presents the frightening consequences of his journey, which has transformed him into America's Patient Zero-an unwitting carrier of the deadly, Asian-born H5N1 virus. Peterson soon infects his own son, other inhabitants of his California suburb, and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Armed with high-tech tools, blood samples, and a small army of fieldworkers, Nathan Wolfe hopes to re-invent epidemiology. In the process, he also pursues the hidden secrets of Earth's dominant life form: viruses. In this TEDTalk, Wolfe outlines a strategy for outwitting the next pandemic by identifying new viruses where they first emerge - among poor subsistence hunters in Africa. Wolfe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009