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It's something that even in the u.s. we can't treat well. it'd be terrible if we had that spread. >> where will you go after you leave here? >> translator: she doesn't know. she doesn't have a house to go to. >> what happens to someone like syndia? is she going to be okay? >> 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 in...

Where diseases can spread rapidly. stomach illnesses, infection, sanitation is bare bones, medication is limited. you can have drug resistant opportunist infections rr already rampant before the quake. one of the worst that existed in haiti in tuberculosis. they had the highest incidents of tb in the region. sanjay gupta looked to see if it's still a problem. >> reporter: there is something happening in these blue tents behind me. what's happening inside there could impact people all over the world. think of this as a quarantine tent. people in here have been quarantined since the quake. many ...

Tb is of particular risk. it's about 30,000 new cases a year. but you and i have traveled to africa, we know how big a problem tb is over there. this is a disease that kills 5,000 people a day around the world. if this starts to develop drug resistance because people lost their medications and simply can't take them, people become carriers, they travel around the world, this could be the epicenter of a real big problem. that's what's so fascinating to me, people think of haiti as over there. but what's happening over here could potentially effect the whole world. >> and we've seen how they mov...