{"id":47752,"date":"2017-11-07T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47752"},"modified":"2017-11-07T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:45:29","slug":"brock-to-host-canadian-premiere-of-snakebite-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/11\/brock-to-host-canadian-premiere-of-snakebite-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to host Canadian premiere of snakebite documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new film being screened at Brock is bringing to light a widespread global crisis the world knows little about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minutes to Die, Snakebite: The World&#8217;s Ignored Health Crisis <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">details the experiences of victims of venomous snakebites and the treatments being developed to come to their aid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock\u2019s Department of Health Sciences is hosting the film\u2019s Canadian premiere on Saturday, Nov. 11 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in TH 147.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary takes viewers into the homes and hospital beds of snakebite victims around the world, into labs where scientists are developing new, improved and cost-effective treatments, and into a pivotal meeting of public health officials at the World Health Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unpacking the limitations of rural medical infrastructure, the economic challenges of anti-venom, and the financial devastation to the families of snakebite victims \u2014 who are often agricultural workers and children \u2014 the film makes clear the health issue is also an issue of poverty, inequity and social justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the film, a question and answer session will be held with director and producer James Reid, as well as researchers from the Lillian Lincoln Foundation and Brock University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Admission is free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RSVP for the screening on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/127445004562806\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">event\u2019s Facebook page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new film being screened at Brock is bringing to light a widespread global crisis the world knows little about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54],"tags":[1696,5957,5958,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47753,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47752\/revisions\/47753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}