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1 online resource (53 minutes) |
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Using a mix of dramatised sequences, interviews with top experts and breathtaking 3D animations from inside the body, The Virus Empire uncovers how these invisible enemies spread. Viruses are one of the biggest killers in the world. In the 20th Century more people died from viral infections than from all the wars around the globe. Episode 2: The Invisible Enemy. Smallpox is the only virus that is officially eradicated. That is why only elderly age groups are vaccinated against it. But stocks of the virus are still held by certain governments and this episode goes onto show what might happen if those sources were used as a weapon of mass destruction. Terrorists manage to infect the napkins used at the closing reception of an international congress in Berlin with smallpox viruses. The New Yorker virologist James Baldrin and the medicine student from Dortmund, Sammie Mahale are among the victims. A few days after the attack the whole world is panicking with 37 countries recording a smallpox outbreak. These are the still unknown viruses that could very soon jump from animals to humans. Experts fear that during outbreaks of killer viruses like ebola or the Marburg virus, terrorists could get the germs from the infected persons and then synthetically multiply them - as it was done in Soviet laboratories twenty years ago |
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Title from resource description page (viewed May 26, 2022) |
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In English |
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Public health.
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Smallpox.
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Bioterrorism -- Prevention
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Virus diseases -- Transmission.
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public health.
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Bioterrorism -- Prevention
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Public health
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Smallpox
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Virus diseases -- Transmission
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documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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Höfer, Petra, director
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D'Amicis, Francesca, director
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Röckenhaus, Freddie, director
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Mitchell, James (Narrator) narrator
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Wolfe, Nathan, speaker
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Pereira, Luis Eloy, speaker
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Kekule, Alexander, speaker
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Wimmer, Eckard, speaker
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Colourfield (Firm), production company.
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Orange Smarty (Firm), publisher
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