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-- Variole2010., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Mongrel Media and the National Film Board Call No: DVD 363.348 L674o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Pandemics have killed more people throughout history than all wars combined. They are unpredictable <U+2014> and inevitable. Are we ready for the next big one? Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague juxtaposes a 21st century scenario against the little-known story of the 1885 smallpox epidemic that devastated Montreal. Revisiting North America<U+2019>s last major encounter with the dreaded "Red Death," it vividly evokes a modern city under siege. By the late 19th century Montreal was Canada<U+2019>s leading metropolis, and smallpox was preventable. So when an inbound train conductor displayed symptoms of the disease, authorities should have been able to contain the infection. But a string of fatal errors and mishaps would muddy the waters -- and a tainted batch of vaccine would sow panic and mistrust in a city already divided by language, religion and class. Epidemics feed on chaos <U+2014> and by the time it had run its terrible course, the 1885 plague had claimed over 2500 lives, mostly children from the city<U+2019>s impoverished French-speaking slums. This cautionary history injects Outbreak with dramatic urgency, as Dr Teresa Tam <U+2014> who oversees Canada<U+2019>s Federal Emergency Response Team -- joins epidemiologist Michael Libman and other experts to speculate on the possible trajectory of a contemporary pandemic."--NFB.
![Outbreak [DVD] (2010) Directed by Jefferson Lewis : anatomy of a plague.](/Library/images/~imageCT75064.JPG "Outbreak [DVD] (2010) Directed by Jefferson Lewis : anatomy of a plague.")
