Influenza : VIDEO, I infect a billion people annually, killing 35,000 in America alone. I strike the very young and very old, but children are my favorite hosts. This program lets influenza speak for itself, presenting its history and describing its methods of mutation and transmission from fowl to pigs to humans. Computer graphics, newsreel footage, and dramatizations help illustrate the deadly power of the virus, using examples such as the pandemic of 1918 that claimed nearly 40 million lives. Among the experts are Dr. Ken Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong and Dr. Robert Webster of St. Jude’s Children Hospital, two of the epidemiologists who stopped a lethal flu strain in Hong Kong in 1997. A Discovery Channel Production.


			Influenza

I infect a billion people annually, killing 35,000 in America alone. I strike the very young and very old, but children are my favorite hosts. This program lets influenza speak for itself, presenting its history and describing its methods of mutation and transmission from fowl to pigs to humans. Computer graphics, newsreel footage, and dramatizations help illustrate the deadly power of the virus, using examples such as the pandemic of 1918 that claimed nearly 40 million lives. Among the experts are Dr. Ken Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong and Dr. Robert Webster of St. Jude’s Children Hospital, two of the epidemiologists who stopped a lethal flu strain in Hong Kong in 1997. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes)

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