Environment Degradation Begets Epidemics: Cholera in Bangladesh

November 21, 2007 presentation by Gary Schoolnik for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series.

Gary Schoolnik, MD, professor of medicine, discusses how the use of chemical fertilizers and other environmental disturbances are driving the genetic transformation of cholera in Bangladesh and in turn spawning new epidemics of the disease in South Asia.

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• medicine
• health
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• cholera
• vibrio
• diarrhea
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• poverty
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• contamination
• epidemic
• 1993
• South
• Asia
• green
• revolution
• agriculture
• chemical
• fertilizer
• deforestation
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• climate
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• evolution
• genetic
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[grunder20]

Very good! More on this!

[MoniqueADyer]

Lecture is very informative and graphic in details. But interesting.

[SuperMsOrange]

Shouldn't the farmer's face was edited or blocked somehow? Where is the privacy and confidentiality? I feel bad about him.

[hotsauce3n]

Awesome lecture any other recommended medical lectures?

[Ssshahin]

thanx for the upload

[dunce237]

Amazing lecture, Thank you!

[PakistaniShaheen]

good job SU keep up the good work 5*****

[tinadenfinaNOT]

Thank you for a great lecture. It helped me alot with my essay about cholera.