Avian flu : preparing for the pandemic /
The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world's leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. A doomsday scenario! Such outbreaks happen two or three ti...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SW Pictures Ltd.,
2010
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| Series: | Current affairs in video
Kill or cure? |
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| Summary: | The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world's leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. A doomsday scenario! Such outbreaks happen two or three times every hundred years. We are due one now – and the avian flu strain H5N1 is the most likely candidate for a future pandemic. The last catastrophic flu pandemic was in 1918, just after the Great War. No-one really knows, but it's estimated it killed between 50 to 100 million people – more than twice as many as than died in the war itself. H1N1, the strain responsible for this worst epidemic in recorded history. Almost ninety years later, H5N1 – an avian flu strain – could do exactly the same thing. The challenge now is to develop a vaccine before the pandemic arrives. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 9, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (22 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:22:23 |
| Language: | This edition in English. |
