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Many say all that talk about a devastating pandemic is just fear-mongering. Some blame urgent public health alerts and also breathless media coverage for creating an over-reaction that disrupted many people's lives.
HEADLINE: Is the swine flu threat overblown?
CAPTION: Many say all that talk about a devastating pandemic is just fear-mongering. Some blame urgent public health alerts and also breathless media coverage for creating an over-reaction...
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U.S. health officials say they've trained 250,000 American health workers on how to safely handle any Ebola patients who arrive in this country. Lawmakers are considering a request for $6.2 billion in emergency aid to fight the disease. (Nov. 12)
U.S. health officials are telling Congress that they have trained 250,000 American nurses, doctors and other health workers on how to safely handle any Ebola patients who arrive in this country.
Beefing up the U.S. response is a key part...
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Ruling party document questions established AIDS theories
Johannesburg, South Africa - March 23, 2002
1. Various South African newspaper Mail & Guardian headlines reading "ANC loses the plot" (ANC: African National Congress)
2. Mail & Guardian interior page "Aids drugs killed Parks,...
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GEORGIA: STRUGGLE TO FIGHT OUTBREAK OF DIPHTHERIA
Russian/Eng/Nat
The poverty stricken republic of Georgia is struggling to fight off an outbreak of diphtheria which has grown to epidemic proportions.
In the capital Tbilisi alone, infection figures have risen tenfold in just two...
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Resorts fear bird flu crisis will affect tourism industry, reax
1. Wide shot of volcanoes (tourist attraction)
2. Mid shot of volcanoes
3. Tourists walking towards volcanoes
4. Tourists taking photographs
5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Isidea Negri, Italian tourist:
"To be honest, if this incident had...
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Nigeria screens farm workers for bird flu virus, UN reax
Jaji, Nigeria
1. Doctor examining young farm worker
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Julius Gajere, doctor running the Jaji tests:
"yes actually, what we are doing is to make sure that the workers on the farm are healthy. But this (indistinct...
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French PM de Villepin overseeing regional bird flu pandemic simulation exercise
1. Wide of plane taxiing on Lyon's airport, pull in on screen reading "Flight Arrival - RF 2402"
2. Wide pan of screen to audience watching plane's arrival
3. Close-up of French Prime-Minister Dominique de Villepin watching plane's...
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WRAP Australia begins world's 1st human trials of vaccine; ADDS UK, EU on situation
AuBC - No Access Australia
Adelaide, Australia
1. Tilt down of Royal Adelaide Hospital to entrance
2. Wide of Royal Adelaide Hospital sign
3. Close up Flu Clinic sign
4. Various close ups of vaccine boxes and bottles
5. Various of...
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A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds Americans know obesity is a health crisis but still want access to junk food. They're split over the government's role in curbing the epidemic by limiting food choices.
HEADLINE: Poll: Americans are obese, still want junk food
CAPTION: A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds Americans know obesity is a health crisis but still want access to junk food. They're split over the government's role in...
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Source of Haiti cholera bug goes under microscope
As Haiti continues to grapple with a cholera epidemic that broke out months after the massive 2010 earthquake, findings from a new study once again bring into focus the controversial question of what caused the outbreak.
The study...
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Activists gather on World AIDS Day to promote AIDS awareness
Seoul, South Korea - December 1, 2006
1. Wide pan of two women pinning flowers on a board in the shape of letters reading AIDS
2. Close of woman's hand pinning green flower onto board
3. Mid of officials walking to board
4. Mid of...
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GNS Pneumonia epidemic sweeps El Salvador
1. Various of babies being administered oxygen
2. Man carrying oxygen tank
3. Various of nurses assisting babies at hospital
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Herbert Betancourt, El Salvador's Sub-Secretary of Health:
"Ninety percent of the cases...
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Conference on "disease control priorities"
1. Wide interior of conference hall
2. Medium of participants
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin), Jing She, Vice minister, Ministry of Health:
"China is facing a rapid change in the types of disease which are spreading, and chronic and...
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Cholera patients react to lawsuit blaming UN for cholera epidemic after 2010 quake
Cholera patients recovering at a makeshift treatment centre in Haiti's capital learned on Wednesday that human rights groups filed a lawsuit blaming the United Nations for causing the deadly cholera epidemic that broke out shortly after...
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CUBA: LETHAL VIRAL ILLNESS DENGUE FEVER BREAKS OUT
Spanish/Nat
An outbreak of the potentially lethal viral illness dengue fever has broken out in Cuba prompting emergency measures to stamp out the disease.
Santiago de Cuba, nine-hundred kilometres east of the capital Havana, has been...
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Former South African president marks World Aids Day.
Cape Town
1. Exterior of Beautiful Gates Hospice
2. Former South African President Nelson Mandela arrives
3. Various HIV-positive babies and young children
4. Various of Mandela with sick baby
5. Mandela with crying child
6. Various of...
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Thailand - AIDS vaccine trials
On September 24th 2009 researchers in Thailand announced that for the first time, an experimental vaccine prevented infection with the AIDS virus - a surprising result and a watershed event in the battle against the deadly epidemic....
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Cholera victims treated in border town hospital
1. Wide of guards by gates Musina Hospital
2. Pan of cordoned off area where cholera patients are being treated within the hospital grounds
3. Parent with children who have contracted cholera lying in the shade within the re-hydration...
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WHO says avian flu could spark human epidemic, poultry in market
1. NIGHT SHOT Exterior of Metropole hotel, location for World Health Organisation press conference
2. Journalists at press conference, then pan to speakers seated at table
3. Mid shot of speakers
4. Cutaway of journalists
5. Close-up of...
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EL SALVADOR: EYE DISEASE EPIDEMIC
Spanish/Nat
Health officials in El Salvador have declared a state of alert following the spread of an eye epidemic throughout the country.
Over 700 people have already been infected by the disease - known as haemorrhagic conjunctivitis...
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Lady Gaga and Dr. Dre launch a new line of headphones for charity
AP Television
Las Vegas, NV. 7 Jan. 2009.
1. Wide shot of Lady Gaga on stage with Dr. Dre
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lady Gaga/Recording Artist
"Hi everybody, how are you doing? I was working with Bono on Red for his friend''s birthday...
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Hospital cleaners stage walkout amid long-running pay dispute
Cleaning staff at Gaza's hospitals have staged a walk-out in a long running dispute over pay.
Workers outside Shifa Hospital say they haven't been paid for six months - and are refusing to return to work until things have been...
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INGUSHETIA: FEARS OVER FLU OR TUBERCULOSIS EPIDEMIC
Eng/Russ/Nat
The U-N says that thousands of Chechen refugees could die or fall seriously ill due to a chronic medicine shortage, sub-zero temperatures and atrocious living conditions.
In the overcrowded tent cities of Ingushetia, the...
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WHO comments on pig-borne disease in China
1. Exterior World Health Organisation (WHO) office
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bob Dietz, WHO spokesman:
"WHO does not accept the fact that it's solely this one bacteria, this streptococcus suis type 2, which is causing all these illnesses....