Foul water, fiery serpent /
Global Health Frontiers: Foul Water, Fiery Serpent, the first in a series of public television specials chronicling the devastating illnesses affecting the world's poor, follows a cast of engaging, passionate characters as they confront the disabling parasitic infection known as Guinea worm dis...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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[Boston, MA] :
American Public Television,
2010
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| Series: | Health and society in video.
Global health frontiers. |
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| Summary: | Global Health Frontiers: Foul Water, Fiery Serpent, the first in a series of public television specials chronicling the devastating illnesses affecting the world's poor, follows a cast of engaging, passionate characters as they confront the disabling parasitic infection known as Guinea worm disease. The film, narrated by Academy Award®-winner Sigourney Weaver, documents the efforts of American health workers and community partners over the course of three years as they track the last-known reports of guinea worm in Ghana and Sudan. Through a relentless cycle of success and failure, facing ignorance and tribal superstitions in a harsh, vast landscape ravaged by war, these dedicated young men and women struggle to drive an ancient enemy into extinction. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 15, 2014). Originally produced in 2010. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, 57 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:56:47 |
| Language: | In English. |
