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1) Kill or Cure
Series
Kill or Cure volume Series 1
Language
English
Description
When polio vaccines were first developed, many experts thought the disease would be fully eradicated within decades. Tragically, as this film shows, it has survived in places like Afghanistan and northern Nigeria. These locations are now acting as disease reservoirs, with children the hardest-hit demographic and with travelers re-infecting other countries once thought invulnerable. Additionally, in the pre-vaccine world, everyone had a degree of natural...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are developing a universal flu vaccine. A brand new vaccine against seasonal flu has to be created once a year for both the northern and southern hemispheres. The constant and rapid evolution of the virus means an effective vaccine this year, can be useless by the next. Scientists in Belgium are determined to beat the virus by producing a vaccine that works long-term, against many types of flu, including pandemic strains. Professor Saelens...
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English
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Throughout history, more people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters. The scientists who first defended us against these diseases faced a terrifying personal gamble. Often they were ignored, laughed at, or even fired from their jobs. But they kept hunting for answers, putting the pieces fo the epidemic puzzle together. As they looked for clues to the origin of diseases such as yellow fever, typhoid, plague, and other deadly...
4) Survival
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sleeping Sickness is the deadliest disease in the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo suffers more cases than any other country. Without treatment, parasites called trypanosomes invade the victim’s brain, ravage their sleep cycle, driving them mad before finally killing them. But dedicated doctors and medics are fighting back. We tell the stories of those who have lost family to the disease and of the lucky ones who have survived this deadly...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the 18th century an English country doctor, Edward Jenner, developed the world’s first vaccine - for smallpox. His breakthrough was the first of several over the next hundred years as scientists, microbiologists, chemists (such as Louis Pasteur), and epidemiologists (such as John Snow) sought answers to and developed cures for diseases such as cholera, rabies and typhoid. The end of World War I saw the return of Pandemics with the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Bacteria are everywhere. Most of them are good for you but there are also some that can kill you. Every year thousands of people come down with food poisoning from one species of bacteria alone – campylobacter. Typically found on raw chicken, campylobacter can be easily killed by heating but many people make the mistake of contaminating their cooking implements in the cooking process and transferring it onto a meal about to be eaten. This video...
8) Common Cold
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Sneezing, sore throat, a stuffy nose, coughing: everyone knows the symptoms of the common cold. It is probably the most common illness. In the course of a year, people in the United States suffer 1 billion colds.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
So what's the difference between cold and flu? I'm Dr. Alan Greene, and I want to help you figure out what the difference is. Most people have a general idea that they are different, but when pressed have a hard time really saying what the difference is. The cold, the common cold, is something very common you usually get on average three or more times during a year. And it is a virus that's primarily in the nose. The three main symptoms of a cold...
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Life after people volume Season 1
Pub. Date
[2011], c2009
Language
English
Description
This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth and how that would affect beloved artifacts, including the Liberty Bell, the Mona Lisa, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Traveling around the world, we consider the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Finally, we examine the ultimate fate of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town that was largely abandoned over 25 years ago because of an underground coal seam fire that continuously...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Dr. James Oleske insisted babies in Newark were getting the new and unknown disease then appearing in gay men and drug users in the ‘80s, every established authority told him that he was crazy. Forming a powerful alliance with the poor mothers and grandmothers of Newark, Oleske never stopped fighting. His brilliant work ultimately ended the pediatric AIDS epidemic in America.
14) Shingles
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Shingles is a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus - the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you have chickenpox, the virus stays in your body. It may not cause problems for many years. As you get older, the virus may reappear as shingles. Unlike chickenpox, you can't catch shingles from someone who has it.
15) Flu
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Flu is a respiratory infection caused by a number of viruses. The viruses pass through the air and enter your body through your nose or mouth. Between 5 percent and 20 percent of people in the U.S. get the flu each year. The flu can be serious or even deadly for elderly people, newborn babies, and people with certain chronic illnesses. Symptoms of the flu come on suddenly and are worse than those of the common cold.
16) Outbreak
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Along the coast of Ghana, strange algae is growing and mysterious deaths are rising--until suddenly, with the sea currents' shift, the deaths stop. Pharmaceutical executive Travis Carter and biology professor Arthur Liddell are the only ones who know the truth, but they've cried wolf before. Will the world heed their warning before it happens again?
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and John Barry's The Great Influenza. For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion-quarantining...
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Pub. Date
[2006], c2001
Language
English
Description
Because of constant use of disinfectants, a hospital is a place where only the fittest microbes survive, a dilemma that raises the stakes of even routine surgical procedures. This program looks at how germs develop partial or total antibiotic resistance and how researchers are pursuing new lines of attack to keep pace with these highly adaptive organisms. Computer imaging and electron microscopy help illustrate how Legionella bacteria adapt to harsh...
19) Real Science
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English
Description
WHO Issues a Global Outbreak Alert "Emergency Travel Advisory" "SARS Spreads Worldwide" When SARS first hit the headlines, it was poised to become a major pandemic. This program shows how vigilant medical professionals save countless lives by tracking and identifying emerging mystery viruses-and stopping them cold with shared knowledge and cutting-edge technology deployed on a global scale. Examination techniques for patients with unknown infectious...
20) Fall of night
Author
Series
Dead of night volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox. Children are sobbing as panicked teachers and neighbors beat down their family members outside of the school...or the things that used to be their family members. Parents don't eat their children do they? Officers Fox and Hammond, along with journalist Billy Trout, are calling it the beginning of the end. This is the zombie apocalypse. An insane escaped serial killer is...
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