Entebbe Encounter

Synopsis

In 1901 an outbreak of sleeping sickness in Uganda rapidly assumed epidemic proportions. The Royal Society in London, alerted in 1902, sent a small Commission to Entebbe to investigate the cause of the disease. Deals with the work of the Commission, in particular with the discovery by Dr Castellani of trypanosomes in the serebrospinal fluid of patients suffering from the disease.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min.

Year of production

1989

Availability

Sale (Wellcome)

Uses

Students of tropical and veterinary medicine; history of medicine.

Subjects

Medical sciences

Keywords

sleeping sickness

Distributor

Name

BMA Film and Video Library

Web

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Phone

020 7383 6690

Fax

020 7388 2544

Address

BMA House
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London
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Name

Wellcome Film

Email

misc@wellcome.ac.uk

Web

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Phone

020 7611 8766

Fax

020 7611 8577

Address

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Wellcome Library
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London
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