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Imported Infections and Epidemics

Professor Chris Whitty FRS and Professor Francis Cox DSc · Gresham College

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About

Shakespeare wrote of island Britain as 'This fortress built by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war'. A look at Britain in the 21st century in an age of rapid travel, major migrations and emerging drug resistant infections will consider why Britain is no longer a ‘fortress’ and what the implications are for its inhabitants and health services. Part of the Mondays at One Autumn Series

Lectures

  1. Unwelcome Guests: Human Diseases 2013-10-07 · YouTube
  2. Ebola: Emergence, Epidemic and the Global Response 2014-12-15 · YouTube
  3. The Zika Virus, Dengue and the Yellow Fever Mosquito 2016-09-15 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor Chris Whitty FRS, Professor Francis Cox DSc
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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