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: One way or another, philanthropic epidemiologist Larry Brilliant has spent his career solving the ills of today. Now he wants to take on the ills of tomorrow. Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet and calls for a new global system that can detect, identify, and contain emerging pandemics before they can spread.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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
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Summary: With millions dead of AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, Africa is in danger of becoming little more than a graveyard. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Dave Marash deliver three successive reports on the AIDS epidemic currently spinning out of control in Zimbabwe. Together they address the hardships of a society composed of mostly the very old and the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008