SciShow
Why Haven’t We Ended These 5 Diseases?
Linode offers simple, affordable, and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. The Neglected Tropical Diseases are a group of conditions that affect the poorest one fourth of the world's population. Most of them have easy cures,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease - Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein
For most of human history, we have sought to treat and cure diseases. But only in recent decades did it become possible to ensure that a particular disease never threatens humanity again. Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein detail how...
SciShow
How We Eradicated Cattle Plague
As a species, we’re getting better at preventing viral diseases. But eradication, or eliminating them completely, is much harder. So how did we eradicate the Cattle Plague?
Curated Video
Eradication of Polio
Vaccines mean that there are now very few new polio cases, but in the early 1900s this wasn't the case. Learn how two scientists, Salk and Sabin, virtually wiped out this potentially deadly disease. Biology - Healthy Living - Polio is a...
Primer
Epidemic, Endemic, and Eradication Simulations
Epidemic, Endemic, and Eradication Simulations
Curated Video
5 Vocabulary Words for IELTS Band 9
Today you’ll learn 5 vocabulary words for IELTS band 9 in Speaking and Writing. The words today are phenomenal! They are very academic and high-level, plus they’re words that most students don’t use. For all those reasons, they are band...
Professor Dave Explains
Smallpox (Variola Virus)
Smallpox is probably the biggest killer in human history, and has had a significant impact on the expansion of human civilization. It is caused by the variola virus, which is a poxvirus, so what do those look like? How do they spread and...
Press Association
Swinney speaks to the media after becoming First Minister
John Swinney speaks to the media after being voted in as First Minister at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. He told Parliament it is an “extraordinary privilege” to accept the office of First Minister.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Afghan opium cultivation skyrockets as eradication collapses
Afghanistan sees a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year highlighting bumper harvests owing to collapsing eradication efforts amid growing insecurity and declining international counter narcotics assistance the UN says
Curated Video
How Might COVID End?
There's only one example from the past century of an eradicated infectious virus: smallpox.
Curated Video
Karzai appeals for international help to fight narco-trade
1. Exterior, Afghan Foreign Ministry
2. Conference
3. Sign: International counter Narcotics Conference
4. Opening of conference
5. President Hamid Karzai and delegates praying
6. Audience
7. Afghan President Hamid Karzai
8. SOUNDBITE:...
Curated Video
SYND 18 4 78 WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION MEETING IN SMALLPOX ERADICATION IN NAIROBI
World Health Organisation (WHO) co-ordination meeting for the eradication of smallpox held in Nairobi and addressed by the Kenyan Minister for Health, James Osogo and Chief of the WHO smallpox eradication unit, Dr I Arita. Once smallpox...
Curated Video
ONLY ON AP Romania looks towards eliminating old-style children's homes
Shocking accounts of thousands of children beaten, starved and humiliated in a network of overcrowded, underfunded state-run orphanages emerged quickly after the 1989 toppling of Romania's Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Bloomberg
We Can Eliminate Covid-19 in Certain Countries, Says Fauci
Dec.23 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says the coronavirus can be eliminated, but not eradicated in most countries. He spoke to Bloomberg's David Westin.
Curated Video
Karzai comments after UN development meeting
1. Pan across meeting
2. Various of delegates
3. Wide shot, Hamid Karzai, Interim Leader, Afghanistan
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hamid Karzai, Interim Leader, Afghanistan:
"I mentioned earlier that we were working on the eradication of...
Press Association
Tower of London lit up purple to mark World Polio Day
The Tower of London is lit up purple to mark World Polio Day, as part of Rotary International's campaign to eradicate the disease.
Curated Video
ONLY ON AP Bumper opium harvests symbolic of failures of US policy
Pink-and-white poppy blooms stretch toward the horizon a field in southern Afghanistan, interspersed with teams of day labourers with seeking out the green bulbs swollen with raw opium that remain when the flowers mature and the petals...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Miles marchan en Peru para pedir mas sueldo
VOICED : Miles marchan en Peru para pedir mas sueldo
AFP News Agency
VOICED : G77+China pide nuevo orden mundial
VOICED : G77+China pide nuevo orden mundial
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : protests against the eradication of coca
CLEAN : protests against the eradication of coca
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Pyramid of shoes in France to protest against landmines
CLEAN : Pyramid of shoes in France to protest against landmines
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Drug Wars
Examine local drug-related crime statistics and public policies related to drug crimes. Understand the impact of drug policies on society and various minority groups, and explore drug issues and policies in other countries.