This short documentary tells the story of the typhoid outbreak that struck the city of Aberdeen in Scotland in 1964. A devastating epidemic that originated from a single tin of corned beef...
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Special thanks to Tarai Cobham, who prepared the script for this video.
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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:45 - Background: Fray Bentos
► 02:45 - Background: Aberdeen
► 03:52 - The Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak
► 10:09 - The Aftermath
*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
*SOURCES:* 📑
► "Dundee grocer’s boy recalls memories of William Low and Watson & Philip" by Kate Brown, published by The Courier, May 2022. Link: [ Ссылка ]
► "The tinned beef that started a typhoid outbreak leaving 60s Aberdeen under lockdown" by Lee Dalgetty, published by Aberdeen Live, January 2022. Link: [ Ссылка ]
► "Typhoid left city 'under siege'" by Stuart Nicholson, published by BBC Scotland News, June 2008. Link: [ Ссылка ]
► "The Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak of 1964" by William Walker, published by the Scottish Medical Journal, December 1965. Available via: [ Ссылка ]
► "Antibiotics and the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak in 1964" by J Brodie, published by The Journal of Hygiene, April 1976. Available via: [ Ссылка ]
► "We want truth, demands E. coli lawyer" published by BBC News, April 1998. Link: [ Ссылка ]
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