News
Sports
On Thursday, Aug. 4, at 9:30 P.M., Rocky Mountain PBS (Channel 6) will televise the film documentary, “Tuberculosis—The White Death”, produced by Hans Rosenwinkel, Assistant Professor of Film and Video Production at the University of Colorado Denver, a freelance writer, producer, editor, and cinematographer.
The documentary includes film clips that depict the laboratory, radiological, and clinical procedures leading to the current diagnosis of tuberculosis. According to reports from the World Health Organization, approximately 4000 people a day world-wide are currently dying from tuberculosis, with an annual rate in the range of 1.5 million.
Included in the documentary are re-enactments of Dr. Robert Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus and his official 1882 public announcement of this bacterium as the cause of tuberculosis. Scenes depicting activities during the days of the tuberculosis sanatorium, including work at National Jewish Hospital in Denver, are also shown.
Showcased are international researchers, Mulualem Agonafir, from Ethiopia, and Dr. Valerie Mizrahi from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, who were interviewed while attending a 2009 Keystone Symposia on Tuberculosis, at the Keystone Conference Center. They share their experience with the scourge of tuberculosis in less developed regions of the world where, in some communities, an estimated 75% of inhabitants are infected.
The purpose of the documentary is to serve as an educational outreach to health care workers and the public at large to bring about an awareness of the basic bacteriology of this organism, what we must do both to protect ourselves from acquiring and transmitting infections, and current measures being taken world-wide for containment.
The documentary includes film clips that depict the laboratory, radiological, and clinical procedures leading to the current diagnosis of tuberculosis. According to reports from the World Health Organization, approximately 4000 people a day world-wide are currently dying from tuberculosis, with an annual rate in the range of 1.5 million.
Included in the documentary are re-enactments of Dr. Robert Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus and his official 1882 public announcement of this bacterium as the cause of tuberculosis. Scenes depicting activities during the days of the tuberculosis sanatorium, including work at National Jewish Hospital in Denver, are also shown.
Showcased are international researchers, Mulualem Agonafir, from Ethiopia, and Dr. Valerie Mizrahi from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, who were interviewed while attending a 2009 Keystone Symposia on Tuberculosis, at the Keystone Conference Center. They share their experience with the scourge of tuberculosis in less developed regions of the world where, in some communities, an estimated 75% of inhabitants are infected.
The purpose of the documentary is to serve as an educational outreach to health care workers and the public at large to bring about an awareness of the basic bacteriology of this organism, what we must do both to protect ourselves from acquiring and transmitting infections, and current measures being taken world-wide for containment.
