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Lederberg and Hamberg segment The comeback of infectious disease,
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This review is from: Charlie Rose with William Kristol & Evan Thomas; Steve Wulf, Christine Gorman & Richard Stengel; Joshua Lederberg & Margaret Hamburg (February 5, 1996) (DVD)
Charlie Rose talks to Nobel Prize Winner Joshua Lederberg and N.Y.C. Health Commissioner Margeret Hamburg about the 'comeback' of infectious disease. Both paint an increasingly troublesome picture for mankind vis-a-vis infectious disease. Diseases once thought eradicated, such as tuberculosis have made a comeback. Antibiotics once completely effective are meeting more and more resistance. What once could be treated at home with medication may now require hospitalization and super- doses of medicine. Lederberg points out that though we are at the top of the food- chain the miscro- organisms which are threatening us have the capacity to breed so rapidly and in such abundance as to continually threaten us. Both Lederberg and Hamburg suggest that the amount devoted by the Federal Government to fighting infectious disease is ridiculously small. They say in effect that this is a short- sighted policy which will lead to great disaster later.
This was an interesting segment with two informative , if not especially happy, guests. |
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