Beating Bird Flu: An Equinox Special

Record ID: 100293
  • Title: Beating Bird Flu: An Equinox Special
  • Date: 13th March 2006
  • Summary: Documentary following three of the world's top flu experts and scientists as they try to figure out the new H5N1 bird flu and prevent a worldwide pandemic. Follows Professor John Oxford of the Royal London Hospital as he tries to track down the origins of the 1918 flu pandemic,and Dr Jeffrey Taunberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,Washington DC as he unravels the genetic code of the 1918 strain. Also,Terrence Tumpney of the Centers for Disease Control,Atlanta as he recreates the 1918 virus and analyses why it particularly affected the young and healthy.
  • Description:Examination of the threat,the science of disease transmission,and what history has to teach us about the reality of flu pandemics.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Granada Television Ltd.
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:13/03/2006
  • Rights:Worldwide
  • Decade: 2000s
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