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NOVA: Epidemic - Ebola, AIDS, Bird Flu and Typhoid | DVD

Starring: Nova
Directed By: Nova

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225 minutes

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1.33:1

Release Date:

June 26, 2007

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65,708th

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Includes four programs: NOVA-Ebola The Plague Fighters; NOVA-Surviving AIDS, NOVA-Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America; and Rx for Survival-Bird Flu.

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	American Experience - Influenza 1918 Starring: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Joe Morton, Liev Schreiber, Linda Hunt Also With: Katy Mostoller (Producer), Michael Rossi (Producer), Rocky Collins (Producer), Rocky Collins (Writer), Tracy Heather Strain (Producer), Henry Hampton (Writer) As the nation mobilized for war in the spring of 1918, ailing Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease about which doctors knew little. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people--more than died in all the wars of this century combined--before disappearing as mysteriously as it began.
	RX for Survival - A Global Health Challenge Starring: Jacob Gaffney, Julia Joyce, Brad Pitt, Trevor White Directed By: Andrew Young, Gail Willumsen, Mike Beckham, Richard Dale, Sarah Holt Also With: Andrew Young (Producer), Andrew Young (Writer), Gail Willumsen (Producer), Gail Willumsen (Writer), Mike Beckham (Writer), Sarah Holt (Writer), Tabitha Jackson (Writer), Alexis Bloom (Producer), Gina Marsh (Producer), Jill Shinefield (Producer) At the dawn of the 21st century, the health of the world is at a critical crossroads. Malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases virtually eliminated from developed countries routinely claim millions of lives in developing nations. More than 40 new or emergent diseases like Ebola fever, SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu have appeared within the last 30 years. Strains of "superbugs" resistant to our best drugs mystify modern medicine, while HIV/AIDS still lacks a vaccine and continues to...
	NOVA: Ebola - The Plague Fighters Starring: Nova Directed By: Nova Enter the "hot zone" of one of the most frightful diseases on the planet- Ebola. When a dreaded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus swept through a remote region of Zaire in May 1995, NOVA was the only film crew permitted into the "hot zone." Spending a total of four weeks in the quarantined city of Kikwit, the result is unprecedented journalistic coverage of this grim battle against one of the world's most lethal diseases. The Ebola plague kills a very high percentage of its victims...
	NOVA - Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America Starring: Artist Not Provided Interweaving biography and social history, The Most Dangerous Woman in America tells the extraordinary story of Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary. She gained this notoriety by being the first person in North America to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Despite her indignant protests of innocence, she was incarcerated for years on an island in New York's East River. Mary Mallon's saga throws into vivid relief the emerging science of public health and the social,...
	The Plague (History Channel) Starring: Artist Not Provided Learn of the drastic steps taken to stop its spread.Re-enactments bring the fear and desperation of the era to life.See haunting reminders of the scourge that devastated Europe. It began like the common cold. Then came fever baseball-sized black swellings on the neck and coughing up blood. Few infected lived more than two days. In the three years since it first struck in 1437 almost half of Europe's population died within three years.THE PLAGUE visits the rat-infested holds of the ships that...