Rx for survival : a global health challenge / a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc.

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Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.). Science Unit
Vulcan Productions
WGBH Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Pitt, Brad, 1963-
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Published: [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, [2005], ©2005.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Communicable Disease Control.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging.
Communicable Diseases.
Global Health.
Documentary television program.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Communicable diseases.
World health.
Genre:
Documentary television program.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:3 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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