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This programme looks at the history and symptoms of Malaria.
This programme looks at the history and symptoms of Malaria.
| Module code and title: | S103, Discovering science |
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| Item code: | S103; 03 |
| First transmission date: | 1998 |
| Published: | 1998 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:02 |
| Note: | Loan copy available on compilation video S103/VCR3; |
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| Producer: | Simon Lawson |
| Contributors: | Ripley Ballau; Robert Gwadz; David Kaslow; Kwadwo Koram |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Footage description: | Footage - Group of musicians, Ghana. Scenes from a town in Ghana (0'12"-1'57) - Globe showing spread of malaria. Scenes from beach in Ghana. Sporozoites, merozoites and gametozites viewed under a microscope. Mosquitoes feeding. Child sick with malaria. Sanscrit medical text. Greek portrait of physician treating patient. B/w cartoons of 3 stages of malaria (1'58"-3'32") - Scenes from Ghanaian town and farms. Musicians singing "Atiche" ("Malaria") (3'33"-4'55") - Diagrams and animations of all stages of the malaria cycle. People suffering from malaria (4'56"-7'29") - Cinchona tree. Ghanaian beach and town scenes. Walker Reed army medical center sign. Bust of Walker Reed. Exterior view of medical center. B/w film of U.S. army manoeuvres (7'30"-8'43") Ghanaian pharmacy. Women buying anti-malarial drugs. Map of the world showing areas where malaria has been eliminated. B/w film from 1940s of men spraying houses and draining marshes (8'44"-10'49"). Stages in life cycle of mosquito. B/w film from 1950s of W.H.O. eradication programme using D.D.T. and chloroquina. Map of world showing areas of malaria after D.D.T. usage. Man spraying D.D.T. (10'50"-13'29") - Entomologist collecting mosquito larvae from puddles. Ghanaian city scenes. Entomologists collecting mosquitoes from inside houses. Educational poster. Musicians performing "Atiche" (13'30"-16'45") - Ghanaian street scene. Pharmacist giving woman drugs. Exterior and interior views of hospital. Blood sample from child being viewed through microscope. Ghanaian town scenes. Man receiving vaccination injection.Animations of red blood cells and plasmodium (16'46"-20'49") - Mosquitoes in laboratory fed with infected blood. Human volunteers. Dissected mosquito. Soldier receiving vaccination. Scientists in lab. Plasmodium under microscope (20'50"-23'59"). Immunology department of the Noguchi Institute: exterior and interior scenes. Stills of stages of the malaria cycle. Dissected mosquito. Oocysts viewed under microscope. Ghanaian town scenes. Entomologists collecting mosquitoes. Scientists in laboratory. Schoolroom: teacher educating children about malaria. Ghanaian town and beach scenes. Song "Atiche" playing (24'00"-29'00"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU9187 |
| Production number: | FOUS907X |
| Videofinder number: | 5373 |
| Available to public: | no |
