sweating is more than that. her lips are so chapped as well, you can see just from the dehydration. it's hard to tell but she's breathing quickly, seems to have difficulty breathing. tuberculosis is a disease of the lungs. what really brought her in here is this dramatic loss of weight. she's lost so much weight. malnutrition, difficulty eating, that often happens as well. a lot of these patients say after the earthquake they lost so many things, including her home and also her medication so she couldn't take her medications for a period of time. what's the risk there? >> there's two big risks. one we worry about the most is developing multi drug resistance. she might be taking only one med that's working for tb and might develop resistance to all the other meds. then she might be more infectious because the tb can grow back. most of 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 them. so it's a chance of just spreading it and spreading it. >> reporter: people think of