Rx for Survival: Bird Flu - How Safe Are We?
by Rob Whittlesey
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Director: Rob WhittleseyBrand: Wgbh Wholesale
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 56 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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- Narrated by Brad Pitt, this segment of the informative but somewhat alarming six-part PBS series deals with avian flu and the threat it poses as a potential global epidemic. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 783421409996 UPC: 783421409996 Manufacturer No: WG40999
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DVD Review: An Excellent Survey of Infectious Diseases
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent video and ideal for the classroom. It walks viewers through several case studies of modern and historical disease outbreaks. The story of bird flu is weaved throughout, although it can be difficult to keep track of the bird flu component as the individual case studies unfold. The video is composed of six separate segments dealing with different diseases:
Ebola - The video begins with a dramatization of the initial 1976 Ebola outbreak, including what appears to be a shot of the actual Ebola River.
AIDS - A case study of AIDS in Botswana. Viewers are introduced to a mother with AIDS and her infected children. It then traces Botswana's response to the crisis and discusses the problems of patient denial in the treatment of AIDS. Finally it shows the effectiveness of routine testing (i.e., making HIV tests part of routine medical screening) on AIDS detection and treatment.
Cholera - A dramatization of John Snow's cholera map that lead him to understand that the Broad Street pump was the cause of an 1850s London cholera epidemic.
SARS - An overview of the SARS outbreak and the success of the health community in preventing it from becoming a major epidemic.
1918 Flu - A comparison between the 1918 outbreak and the modern concerns of Bird Flu. It also provides and excellent example of forensic medicine as a doctor tracks down active viral particles in preserved tissue samples from the 1918 outbreak. Finally, it links this historical outbreak with avian influenza and discusses how viral mutations allow viruses to jump from one species to another.
Bird Flu - Tracks the initial outbreak of H5N1 virus, first in poultry then in humans. An interesting aspect of this is an effort to determine why 7 year old boys are particularly at risk from the disease; it turns out that plucking chickens is the job of young children and exposes them to greater risk of infection. Warns viewers that bird flu could easily become a pandemic and may have ~50% mortality rate. Ends with a discussion of the efforts to develop an H5N1 vaccine.
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Description of Rx for Survival: Bird Flu - How Safe Are We?
During the past 100 years, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. In the last few decades, however, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged and one of them ? AIDS ? is becoming perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history. New diseases travel the globe with unprecedented rapidity, and older killers that once seemed controllable are roaring back with a vengeance. How Safe Are We? examines the most critical threats we face today ? including avian flu ? and the pressing need to strengthen global public health systems.Bestsellers in DVD
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