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Tinned Beef, Typhoid and TV

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It's 40 years since the first of Britain's big televised public health scares. When hundreds of people in Aberdeen contracted typhoid after eating contaminated corned beef from Argentina, it became national news - but did the media coverage fuel unnecessary alarm and could the outbreak have been prevented? Edi Stark reports. Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane

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