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Beginning with mankind’s earliest recorded history, infectious disease has taken the lives of more humans than all wars, famines and natural disasters combined—not by a narrow margin but by an overwhelming landslide. Before the birth of modern science, losses to these unseen enemies were routinely blamed on the collective sins of man and the wrath of angry gods. Over the course of centuries, man’s ongoing inability to comprehend the microbial...
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This course will take you on a voyage through the fascinating world of infectious diseases. You will travel through the centuries and right up to current outbreaks of new, emerging and often deadly diseases. You will travel side by side with germs as they hitch rides by land, sea, and air, spreading their virulence worldwide. With many germs around us daily, this course will identify the beneficial ones and help you avoid or destroy the ones that...
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"Nightmare bacteria." That's how the CDC describes a frightening new threat spreading quickly in hospitals, communities, and across the globe. FRONTLINE reporter David Hoffman investigates the alarming rise of untreatable infections: from a young girl thrust onto life support in an Arizona hospital, to a young American infected in India who comes home to Seattle, and an uncontrollable outbreak at the nation's most prestigious hospital, where eighteen...
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FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health.
5) Outbreak
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The vivid, inside story of how the Ebola outbreak began and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping accounts of victims from the slums of Monrovia to the jungles of Guinea, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
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In the new 2020 high-definition program, young people will learn how to keep themselves safe from viruses like COVID-19. What is a virus and how does it spread? How do vaccines work? What is a pandemic? How using strategies from past pandemics to fight COVID-19? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics, engaging examples, and video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce...
10) Contagion
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A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
11) Surviving ebola
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As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. Surviving Ebola includes chilling firsthand interviews of what it's like to catch and survive this terrible affliction.
13) The invasion
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A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are starting to act strange. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son, Oliver...
15) Have you heard?
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Defines meningitis and focuses on meningococcal meningitis. Describes symptoms, treatment, and prevention for teens and preteens. Includes referrals to CDC online resources.
16) I am legend
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Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.
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Robert Brieman, M.D., of CDC's Global Disease Detection Program covers disease surveillance and prevention that is conducted in Africa's "largest continuous slum," Kibera. Explains the importance of the activities to health policy development for other populations given the possibilities of international disease transmission.
19) Planet terror
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A small town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
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