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The Story of Asthma Island (9th December 2008) [PDTV (Xvid)]

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The Story of Asthma Island

Tuesday, 9th December 2008
10pm to 10:30pm
BBC4

In the middle of the South Atlantic, 1,500 miles from any other land mass lies the most remote inhabited island in the world, Tristan da Cunha. This in itself is quite extraordinary, but the island is also unique for an entirely different reason - half of its 261 residents suffer from asthma.

Dr Noe Zamel, of the University of Toronto, first recognised this phenomenon when he met the islanders after they were evacuated to Britain in 1961, when the island's volcano erupted. Studying for his PhD at the time, Dr Zamel was part of the team of scientists assembled to learn everything they could about this unique population. "I was in charge of doing the pulmonary function tests and I was amazed that every second Tristanian that I tested had evidence of airway obstruction caused by asthma" said Dr Zamel. After the volcano calmed, the islanders returned home, followed eventually in 1993 by Dr Zamel. His quest was to discover what was behind the asthma pandemic.



=== File Information ===
File Name: The Story of Asthma Island.avi
Duration: 00:29:08 (43,704 fr)
File Size: 232 MB (or 238,298 KB or 244,017,152 bytes) bytes

=== Video Information ===
Video Codec Name: XviD
Video Bitrate: 979 kb/s
Bits / Pixel: 0.192 bits/pixel
Resolution: 608x336 (1.81:1) [=38:21]
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps

=== Audio Information ===
Audio Codec: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 130 kb/s (65/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.90



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