Multimedia Collection
Hot Zones
DVD
57 min
1999
GE140 .J68 2007 no.6 DVD
HOT ZONES explores the link between environmental change and human health: are we winning the battle to prevent global outbreaks of infectious diseases? Environmental change is fostering the tide of contagion which threatens to engulf us all.
- Kenya In small villages, people are plagued with the escalating consequences of malaria. But what accounts for the recent epidemics in Nairobi, a place where malaria never before existed?
- Peru Scientists are working hard to discover the causes of new hot zones of malaria and dengue fever.
- Bangladesh: Community health clinics struggle to cope with massive cholera epidemics which strike nearly half a million Bangladeshis and claim 25,000 lives.
- United States: Travel, commerce and tourism have brought infectious diseases to the doorstep of the West, resulting in new emerging public health threats such as West Nile Virus. Is this a harbinger of things to come?
Closed captioned.
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