What's killing the children
In late 1984, in the rural South Brazilian town of Promissao, a mysterious disease struck and killed 10 children between the ages of 3 months and 7 years. Though EIS officers--often called "disease detectives"--Were dispatched into the area by the Centers for Disease Control, they could find no answer to the mystery. This program examines how an EIS officer used techniques of epidemiology to successfully identify an entirely new and deadly disease, Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF). Students will learn some of the methods used by epidemiologists, discuss the role of the CDC nationally and globally in circumstances similar to these, and understand how an eye infection turned into a deadly disease.
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- Lee Harrison 1956-, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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