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You are watching Bilharzia & Bird Flu Season 1 Episode 9

In the first section of the weekly global health program, presenter Shereen El Feki and Alan Fenwick from Imperial College London discuss Bilharzia. The Pulse looks at the situation in Uganda, the first country in the region to benefit from a 30 million dollar programme to control the disease. The Pulse then takes a look at Bird Flu, a virus that has a 70-75% mortality rate.

• On site 09 September 2008
• Air date 01 July 2007
• Produced for Al Jazeera

TV Series — The Pulse

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Keywords

• H5N1,
• pandemic,
• Indonesia,
• national emergency,
• influenza,
• vaccine