Pandemics and Outbreaks
Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social, and political disruption. Evidence suggests that the likelihood of pandemics has increased over the past century
because of increased global travel and integration, urbanization, changes in land use, and greater exploitation of the natural environment -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525302/
From the 1918 Flu Pandemic to COVID-19, you can find films addressing these evnets in the Film & Video Collection.
Avian Flu / H5N1 / H1N1
Avian Flu: Preparing for the Pandemic by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2010The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world's leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. The challenge now is to develop a vaccine before the pandemic arrives.
Black Dawn: The Next Pandemic by Call Number: DVD 6182Publication Date: 2006What would happen if the World Health Organization declared what has long been expected and feared: human-to-human transmission of the avian flu virus? This docudrama features leading epidemiologists, doctors and emergency planners who imagine the impact avian flu would have as it spreads around the globe.
Chasing the Flu by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2005Steve Kroft reports on the effort to stop a potentially devastating outbreak of bird flu.
H5N1: Killer Flu by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2005Avian influenza A (H5N1) has successfully made the leap from poultry to people. Is a human-to-human pandemic inevitable? Bill Moyers speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the National Institutes of Health, about how this lethal virus mutates and spreads, symptoms of infection, best- and worst-case survival scenarios, the vaccination development process, and whether there will be enough vaccine in the event of a major outbreak.
Swine Flu and Ebola
Teaching the Science by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2012This programme presents four top UK scientists in who are playing an international role in the battle against the Swine Flu pandemic threat.
Outbreak by Call Number: DVD 16492Publication Date: 2015The inside story of how the Ebola outbreak began and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late.
Ebola Outbreak by Call Number: DVD 15061Publication Date: 2014From the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, FRONTLINE follows health officials tracking the deadly disease and trying to stop its rampant spread.
Surviving Ebola by Call Number: DVD 15376Publication Date: 2014NOVA reports from the Ebola hot zone, where medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure.
Outbreaks and Pandemics
The Next Pandemic by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2013In 1918, the Spanish flu killed between 20 and 40 million people worldwide. Now the search is on to find the early 20th Century virus in the hope that it might help mankind survive other deadly new strains.
Breakthrough by Call Number: DVD 19271Publication Date: 2015Examines cutting edge developments in science, technology, and medicine, covering a variety of topics that include: new findings in pandemic research.
Spillover: Zika, Ebola & Beyond by Call Number: DVD 18833Publication Date: 2016Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.
Emergency Management in Public Health:Tthe H1N1Eexample by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2011Examines the activities of public health professionals in emergency management and discusses the four stages of emergency management: prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. It offers the example of the 2010 pandemic H1N1 influenza outbreak.
Unseen Enemy by Call Number: eVideoPublication Date: 2017Examines why we are experiencing a rash of diseases that were once only outbreaks but have now become full - blown epidemics. Examines the recent epidemics of Ebola, Influenza, and Zika.
The Virus Empire Silent Killers by Call Number: DVD 8978Publication Date: 2009Illustrates how the SARS virus spread and was gradually contained. Virology experts shed light on topics ranging from the relationship between a defect in the CCR5 gene and viruses such as HIV and the bubonic plague, to the connection between H1N1 Spanish flu and H5N1 avian flu.Infectious Diseases: More Mobility, Greater Danger by
Call Number: DVD 2438Publication Date: 2005Illustrating connections between globalization and the spread of disease, this program uses data-mapping to assess the potential impact of deadly viruses -- including the avian influenza. Outbreaks of bird flu in the Netherlands and West Nile virus in New York City illustrate the increasing mobility of exotic pathogens in an era of frequent international travel.
Killer Flu by Call Number: DVD 2155Publication Date: 2006The video discusses the 1918 flu pandemic, its deadly consequences and the possibility that a similar strain could occur today.
How Safe Are We? by Call Number: DVD 12756Publication Date: 2005During the past 100 years, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. In the last few decades, however, 30 new infectious diseases have emerged. Examine the most critical threats we face today, including avian flu.
Feature Films and Games
World War Z by Call Number: DVD 13525 & HDDVD 264Publication Date: 2013Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane travels the globe in an effort to eliminate the zombie pandemic that is endangering the existence of humanity.
I Am Legend by Call Number: DVD 9546Publication Date: 2008Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human.
Diary of the Dead by Call Number: DVD 18922Publication Date: 2007Focusing on a terrified group of college film students who record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival.
The Last of Us by Call Number: PS3 16Publication Date: 2013A couple of survivors brought together by disaster must journey across a post-pandemic U.S. in hopes of freedom from the brutal world left behind.
OutbreakCall Number: DVD 19365Publication Date: 1995A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
Contagion by Call Number: DVD 15045 & HDDVD 363Publication Date: 2011A film centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
The Cured by Call Number: DVD 19860Publication Date: 2017In a world ravaged by a virus that turns the infected into zombies, a cure is found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
28 Weeks Later by Call Number: DVD 3942Publication Date: 2007Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of the London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. But, the virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
The Stand by Call Number: DVD 14714Publication Date: 1994Chronicles a group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory.
28 Days Later by Call Number: DVD 5246Publication Date: 2002A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.