Bang Goes The Theory Series 8
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- Episode
- Disaster Relief
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (29 mins)
- Description
- Hurricane’s, floods, earthquakes, wars - all can trigger not just thousands of casualties and refugees, but a worldwide humanitarian effort, with the roots for its success founded in science. Based at the Zaatari Refugee camp, temporary home to around 20,000 Syrian’s, Maggie Philbin looks at the problems the humanitarian community face when tackling a disaster and how the lessons learnt there might help closer to home. Liz Bonnin comes face to face with Cholera, one of the most feared bacteria on the plant. And the team are Joined by Dr Chris Van Tulliken, who makes "Plumpy Knut" a simple peanut remade that’s saved tens of thousands of famine victims.
- Genre
- Medicine; Science; Research
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