Westinghouse broadcasting and pittsburgh teamed up with the American Medical Association, the u. S. Public Health Service and the university of pittsburgh to produce the silent invader. The film is from the digital cle collections of the u. S. Library. The Westinghouse Broadcasting company and university of pittsburgh one of the nations Major Health Centers in cooperation with the American Medical Society and the United States public Health Service bring you the silent invader. An uptotheminute report on asian influenza. How do you do . Ill carl ives. Throughout history, mankind has been forced to wage many battles in order to protect his family or nation against misfortune, disaster or even possible extinction. Sometimes these wars have been, well, theyve been catastrophic. There was a catastrophe in 1918 when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. Unlike the battles of nation against nation, or humanity against the forces of nature, when man i
Made possible an effective vaccine which can prevent the disease. This, the place where the vaccine is tested and produced for use throughout the world, west point, pennsylvania. And this, the vaccine itself. The end product of medicines long match with measles. Many parents think of measles as just a common nuisance, which makes their children feel miserable and keeps them out of school for a while. But physicians today know that measles is more than a nuisance. It can bring on bacterial infections, can cause fatal pneumonia, and in some cases, encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. Each case needs good medical care. It is not so much because of the usual rash and fever symptoms of measles that the doctor says hell check back in a day or so but rather to be sure that the young patient is not developing serious complications. Elect roencephalograms indicate half the patients with natural measles show some brain involvement during the disease. After the disease has passed, most patien
Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o
Kind of like, why in the middle of a pandemic are they calling people like me . So this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course, it is about how you become a historian, and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class, we talked a little bit about the reaction you may sometimes get from family members when they hear you are a history major or minor or even taking a history course, that, why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this old stuff . I can tell you personally i get , those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today, why should we bother looking at the past history of diseases and how we responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother, and why i am proud to be a historian, why i am really psyched about what i do. So that is objective number one. I said the first week of class, i want to make you proud o
I am the host of todays discussion. Since 2003, the director of the Hauenstein Center for president ial studies named after colonel ralph hauenstein, whom we will be speaking of. I am joined on stage by two individuals for whom world war ii is no abstraction. Two your right is the daughter of the late ambassador. Her father is remembered as the envoy who tried to negotiate peace with america while the , Japanese Military was secretly trying to attack pearl harbor. Her mother was american from new york city. After world war ii, she married an american, worked in commercial real estate, and lived much of her life in the grand rapids area. One of her greatgrandchildren , garrett, is in the audience. Is a candidate in the Cook Leadership Academy. To your farright is the youngest grandson of colonel ralph hauenstein. Brians grandfather is pressed is best known as eisenhowers u. S. Army officer who liberated paris and places of unbelievable horror. After the war, ralph discovered his vocatio