Searching for Syphilis - for iPod/iPhone
By The Open University
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Description
At the end of the 15th century a terrifying new epidemic spread across Europe, but was this disease, known as the Great Pox, really Syphilis? Did Christopher Columbus actually bring the disease back from the New World? Join us as we look at whether the discovery of a 600 year old skeleton can shed new light on the origins of one of mankind's most enduring diseases, which still affects 12 million people every year. This material forms part of The Open University course S320 Infectious disease.
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Searching for Syphilis | Same as album description | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Searching for Syphilis | Transcript -- Same as album description | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWhat was the Great Pox? | Discussions to whether the symptoms described by medieval medical records really were the signs of syphilis. Could Columbus and his crew really have started the spread of the disease in Europe? | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- What was the Great Pox? | Transcript -- Discussions to whether the symptoms described by medieval medical records really were the signs of syphilis. Could Columbus and his crew really have started the spread of the disease in Europe? | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe bones of Rivenhall women | Dr Simon Mays discovers a 600 year old diseased skeleton from a church yard in Essex. Will the bones of Rivenhall women show signs that treponemal disease was in Europe prior to the voyage of Columbus? | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The bones of Rivenhall women | Transcript -- Dr Simon Mays discovers a 600 year old diseased skeleton from a church yard in Essex. Will the bones of Rivenhall women show signs that treponemal disease was in Europe prior to the voyage of Columbus? | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoExtracting DNA from ancient bone | Dr Piers Mitchell an orthopaedic surgeon and medical historian looks at which types of diseases Rivenhall women was likely to be carrying. Meanwhile Ms Abi Bouwman an biomolecular archaeologist is looking at new ways of detecting treponemal DNA in ancie | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Extracting DNA from ancient bone | Transcript -- Dr Piers Mitchell an orthopaedic surgeon and medical historian looks at which types of diseases Rivenhall women was likely to be carrying. Meanwhile Ms Abi Bouwman an biomolecular archaeologist is looking at new ways of detecting treponema | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoTreatment for syphilis | Dr Sheila Lukehart talks about how syphilis has shown little resistance to the basic antibiotics we use to fight it, mainly penicillin. | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Treatment for syphilis | Transcript -- Dr Sheila Lukehart talks about how syphilis has shown little resistance to the basic antibiotics we use to fight it, mainly penicillin. | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe results of Rivenhall women's test | Ms Abi Bouwman reports on the results of the Rivenhall women's DNA tests. | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The results of Rivenhall women's test | Transcript -- Ms Abi Bouwman reports on the results of the Rivenhall women's DNA tests. | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe future for syphilis | A surprised Dr Simon Mays discovers the true origins of the Rivenhall women and talks about the future for syphilis | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The future for syphilis | Transcript -- A surprised Dr Simon Mays discovers the true origins of the Rivenhall women and talks about the future for syphilis | 6 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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