Rising Threat of Infectious Diseases

Program reveals how all sorts of infectious diseases such as HIV or tuberculosis and others are an increasing danger to human beings. Viewers will learn the history of man’s fight against microbes from the Bubonic plague to smallpox, the invention of the vaccine, and penicillin. The evolution of bacteria, and the role of humans in this ongoing evolution, is also discussed.

Includes: 

video, plus teacher’s resource book, student handouts in digital format