Belly on Fire (1982)

Short documentary about the mass deaths of mainly native children in Papua New Guinea due to a stomach disease or enteritis commonly known as Pigbel or Pikbel. Documents the discovery, cause, medical research, treatment, and control of the disease as well as the vaccination and immunization of PNG's indigenous people from it. Filmed in Goroka, at Goroka Hospital, and in the Papua New Guinean highlands and villages.