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  1. Rwandan refugee crisis (1994)

    Genre
    News report

    Alex Thomson reports from a Rwandan refugee camp in Goma on the Zaire border where despite international aid efforts including a large contribution from the United States people are continuing to die from...

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  2. Smallpox outbreak (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Professor Keith Dumbell of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, worries he will have to move his smallpox laboratory out of London or even close it completely due to concern following an outbreak at a...

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  3. Baby deaths at Guy’s (1992)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Mark Phillips reports on the death of two babies, Dean Bunn and Kane Elmore, at Guy’s Hospital in London. Health officials are insisting the klebsiella bug was not the main cause but the childrens’...

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  4. AIDS: the facts (1987)

    Genre
    Interview; Documentary

    A documentary charting the rise of the AIDS virus. Dr John Galway describes the medical background of AIDS, the incubation period, the symptoms which lead to the rapid deterioration of the immune system,...

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  5. Black Death, The (1996 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

    Between 1347 to 1351 25 million people in Europe were killed by the plague. The programme looks at the effect of the plague on ordinary people of the time, and at the lasting political, economic and social...

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  6. Health and Disease in Zimbabwe (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores the factors that compose the health portrait of a developing country such as Zimbabwe, whcih whas one of the fastest rates of population growth in the world but a very high infant mortality rate....

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  7. Future Plagues (1999 Video)

    Producer
    Becky Jones
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the possibility that vaccines and antibiotics may never be able to keep deadly microbes at bay. Scientists are bracing themselves for the onslaught of potential untreatable plagues, as unknown...

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  8. In Search of Syphilis (2003)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £34.99

    The 15th century skeleton of a woman discovered in the vault of a church in Rivenhall is the starting point of the intriguing story of the origins of syphilis. This woman would not have understood why she...

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  9. UNHCR view on Rwandan refugee crisis (1994)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Ray Wilkinson of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) about the death toll in the Rwandan refugee camps where despite international aid efforts people are continuing to die...

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  10. Smallpox in Birmingham (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with an unidentified male speaker (poss. James McGee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)) on the control of an outbreak of smallpox from a laboratory in Birmingham and the WHO’s role in the...

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