haiti as over there someplace 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 will be infected, even workers like us here. that can really spread to miami, new york city and eventually to san francisco and the southeast. we really do not wish to have multi drug resistance. it s something that even in the u.s. we can t treat well so it would be terrible if we had that spread. reporter: where will you go after you leave here? translator: she doesn t know. she doesn t have a house to go to. reporter: what happens to someone like cindia. from a medical standpoint is she going to be okay? i hope so. if the right infrastructure is
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