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>> right. and so in these tent cities where you don't really have adequate sanitation, you've got a bug on you. you don't have adequate sanitation, water is carted in, sometimes people are drinking out of hoses, there's a hose on the street people drink out of all the time. stomach illnesses can pass very easily in shared food and alike. >> no question. the sanitation in these places is how a lot of these infectious diseases are spread. and a lot of the water borne diseases, as well. the water gets contaminated in all sorts of different ways. tb is of particular risk. it's the highest rate as ...

Including syndia say after the earthquake they've lost so much, also her medication. she couldn't take her medications for a period of time. what's the risk there? >> one, of course, we worry about the most, building up drug resistance. she might be taking one med that's working for tb and might then develop resistance to all of the other meds. and then she might be more infectious because the tb can grow back. and most of these patients here are living in tent cities where they're sleeping nose to nose with their families with hundreds of thousands of other people sleeping nose to nose with t...

>> i hope so. if the right infrastructure's in place. she has totally treatable diseases in the u.s. and right now i know i can treat all her diseases. >> this is a dumb question, tb, how do you get tb? >> it's a bacterial infection. it just spreads mainly through people coughing, respiratory, that's why people wear masks inside the tents. you stand a certain distance away, you can lower your risk. but nose to nose. that's how people are sleeping. >> right. and so in these tent cities where you don't really have adequate sanitation, you've got a bug on you. you don't have adequate sanitation, ...

Syndia, it's hot outside, but the sweating is more than that. her lips are so chapped, as well. you can see just from the dehydration, hard to tell, but she's breathing quickly. seems to have difficulty breathing. it is a disease of the lungs. what brought her in here was the dramatic loss of weight. look at her arms. she's lost so much weight. malnutrition, difficulty eating, that happens, as well. a lot of these patience, including syndia say after the earthquake they've lost so much, also her medication. she couldn't take her medications for a period of time. what's the big risk? >> one, of...

>> people think of haiti as over there, some place else, not here. london, new york, atlanta, san francisco, do people need to be worried about what's happening in this tent? >> over time this is going to grow and grow. if we allow tb to grow in haiti, people are going to travel, people are going to be infected. even workers like us here, and that can really spread to miami, new york city, and eventually to san francisco and the southeast. and we really do not wish to have multidrug resistance. it'd be terrible if we had that spread. >> where will you go after you leave here? >> translator: sh...