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Bird Flu |
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| Date: |
August 9, 2007 |
| Time: |
6:30 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: |
Keck Auditorium, Charles R. Drew University,
1731 East 120th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90059 |
| Guest Speaker: |
Chris Reid, MD, PhD, Department of Biomedical
Sciences at Charles Drew University |
| Medical Theme: |
infectious diseases |
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An American businessman flies to Hong Kong. In Guangdong Province in southern China, soldiers storm an outdoor market, forcibly confiscating chickens from terrified peasants. The American visitor negotiates production rates with a manager on a factory floor; a worker on the assembly line coughs. By the time the American is relaxing on the long flight home, his germs are spreading from paper
napkin to martini olive to sleeve.
He dies not long after he returns to his wife and children in Richmond, Va., and becomes patient zero in a public health emergency so vast that no federal agency, state or community is even remotely prepared to handle it.
| Starring: |
Joely Richardson, Stacy Keach, Ann Cusack, Justina Machado
and Scott Cohen |
| Genre: |
Action and Adventure |
| Year: |
2006 |
| Run Time: |
84 minutes |
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About the speaker: Christopher Reid, MD, PhD is a graduate of West Point, Harvard University, and Harvard Medical School. He joined the Biomedical Sciences Department at Charles R. Drew University in 2006. Dr. Reid's research interests are broad and include Public Health Policies, Tropical Disease Intervention, Gene Therapy and Develomental Neurobiology.
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