A survey of the more important virus diseases and the efforts of WHO and other authorities to overcome them: foot and mouth disease; polio - why it is apparently a disease of advanced countries - and the Salk vaccine; yellow fever, and a question: “Can it be kept out of Asia?”; the difficulties of preventing influenza by vaccination; the importance of quarantine and other control measures at ports and airports. Narrated by James McKechnie.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
321874
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United Nations
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → International cooperation
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Community health
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Causes and theories of causation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Prevention
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Public health
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Vaccination
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Viral genetics
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Virus diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → World Health Organisation
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)