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Title:

TB silent killer / a True Vision production for WGBH/Frontline in association with BBC ; producer, writer, director, Jezza Neumann.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher:

Distributed by PBS Distribution,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Tuberculosis--Swaziland.
Tuberculosis--Patients--Swaziland--Biography.
Epidemics--Swaziland.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Medical television programs.
Social problem television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Neumann, Jezza, 1968- producer. producer.
Lyman, Will, narrator.
Perera, Jamie, composer.
True Vision Productions, production company.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.
British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.

Other Titles:

Contained in (work): Frontline (Television program)

Notes:

Documentary. Narrator, Will Lyman. Originally produced as an episode of the television series: Frontline. Originally broadcast by PBS Mar. 25, 2014.

Summary:

With more than eight million new infections every year, virulent new drug-resistant strains emerging faster than ever, and outbreaks across the world, tuberculosis has become the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease on the planet. Jezza Neumann travels to Swaziland, the country with the world's highest incidence of TB, to deliver this unforgettable portrait of the people living at the pandemic's epicenter.

ISBN:

1627890343
9781627890342

OCLC:

(OCoLC)878079480

UPC:

841887021401

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)