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1 online resource (22 min.) |
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Current affairs in video |
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Kill or cure? |
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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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Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 9, 2013) |
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This edition in English |
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Avian influenza.
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Avian influenza -- Prevention
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Avian influenza -- Vaccination
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Epidemics -- Prevention
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Influenza in Birds
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Avian influenza.
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Epidemics -- Prevention.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Seaborne, Alex.
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Bower, Dick.
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Wilson, Richard.
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