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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?

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