ATV Today: 01.09.1978: Smallpox Outbreak - Bedson

Summary

Professor Henry Bedson who led a team at the University of Birmingham working on the smallpox virus has been taken to hospital.

Year:

1978

Duration:

0:01:00

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Professor Bedson had been in quarantine at his house at Harborne following news that a colleague, Janet Parker had contracted the virus whilst working with smallpox at the University of Birmingham Medical School. Tony Maycock reports that Professor Bedson was taken to Birmingham Accident Hospital today. Exterior shot of his house in Harborne. Exterior of the Birmingham Accident Hospital. Tony Maycock interview with a spokesman for the hospital about Professor Bedson's mental state since the outbreak. (+ brief trims that include a filmed still of Professor Bedson).


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