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Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge

★ 8.0 52 votes 2005–2005 1 season · 6 episodes Returning Series PBS
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Starring
Brad PittTrevor WhiteJames FlynnMartin McDougallEric CarteGlenn Beck
Starring
Brad PittTrevor WhiteJames FlynnMartin McDougallEric CarteGlenn Beck

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From vaccines to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bio-terror threats to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the six-part series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge tells the compelling stories of global health challenges and successes. Employing both historical dramatic sequences and poignant current documentary stories, the series showcases key milestones in public health history, such as the eradication of smallpox, alongside modern and future challenges, including SARS, a potential global flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami catastrophe.

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Season 12005
—0654m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Disease Warriors—
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▶2Rise of the Superbugs—
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▶3Delivering the Goods—
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▶4Deadly Messengers—
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▶5Back to Basics—
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▶6How Safe Are We?—
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Brad Pitt Narrator
Trevor White Jesse Lazear
James Flynn Alexander Yersin
Martin McDougall Fred Soper
Eric Carte Edward Jenner
Glenn Beck Prisoner 1
John Hug Louis Pasteur
Robert Jezek Joseph Goldberger
Osmani Rodriguez Self
Jacob Gaffney Prisoner 2

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