Moving photos of extreme drug-resistant TB

Name: Moving photos of extreme drug-resistant TB
Uploaded: 2008-10-03T01:00:00Z
Duration: 5 min 31 s
Description: An ancient disease is taking on a deadly new form. James Nachtwey share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a newly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that has developed due to misused and inadequate medical treatments -- and that might be touching off a global medical crisis.

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• October 2008

An ancient disease is taking on a deadly new form. James Nachtwey share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a newly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that has developed due to misused and inadequate medical treatments -- and that might be touching off a global medical crisis.