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Pbs Learning Media: American Experience: Lessons From Silent Spring for Controlling Disease: Rachel Carson
Find out why, decades after the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' exposed the unintended consequences of popular pesticides like DDT, some critics are connecting a renewed rise in malaria around the globe to Carson's...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: The Effects of Pesticides on Children
This video segment adapted from Playing with Poison describes how children in the Yaqui Valley, one of the largest farming areas in Mexico, have been harmed by chronic exposure to pesticides. To study the long-term health effects of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Groundbreaking Pesticide Ban
Hear the personal story of Jamie Armstrong, a 10-year-old girl in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who developed a rash and serious asthma as a baby after her apartment was sprayed for cockroaches. Years later, Jamie still has severe asthmatic and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge: Eradicating Malaria With Ddt
Discover the story of Dr. Fred Soper and his efforts to eliminate malaria in this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival. Dr. Soper targeted the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, the species known to spread malaria. He devised a strategy...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Experience: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
This video segment adapted from American Experience: "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" tells the story of how biologist Rachel Carson was driven to write Silent Spring, a book that questioned the safety of pesticide use in the United...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Atrazine Affects the Water Supply: Big River: A King Corn Companion
Learn how waterways are polluted by agricultural pesticides such as atrazine, a herbicide commonly used on corn farms, in this video segment featuring live-action animation adapted from the independent film 'Big River: A King Corn...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Greater Boston: Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?
This video segment from 'Greater Boston' examines the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects. Massachusetts had been planning to use aerial spraying to control the spread of eastern equine encephalitis, a disease...