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Watch a PBS television program featuring the FAZD Center

Episode 5 of the award-winning public television series "State of Tomorrow" features interviews with FAZD Center Director Dr. Neville P. Clarke and Biological Systems Leader Dr. L. Garry Adams. The episode's third segment -- which deals with high-level biosecurity -- includes interviews with Dr. C.J. Peters, a FAZD Center principal investigator from the University of Texas Medical Branch. "State of Tomorrow" aired on PBS stations in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, El Paso, College Station and 10 other Texas urban markets. It won five Lone Star Emmys. The Meadows Foundation has awarded a grant to the program's producers that will allow them to distribute the series to every public middle school and high school in Texas.

Public Awareness Office

Rusty Cawley, APR, Communications Coordinator for Homeland Security/Public Awareness Officer

Need background information on these diseases?

Links to documents, publications and websites that explain avian influenza, brucellosis, foot-and-mouth disease and Rift Valley fever.