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You are watching The Deadly Combination Season 1 Episode 6

Tuberculosis, a disease once thought to be under control, is spreading and mutating. It’s developing resistance to almost every drug available. In South Africa, fears of an epidemic have led some health authorities to lock up patients diagnosed with XDR-TB. How should countries balance their need to protect the public from a killer disease with the rights of the individual patients?

• On site 14 November 2008
• Air date 14 November 2008
• Produced for BBC World

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Keywords

• Survival,
• Tuberculosis and HIV,
• Jose Pearson,
• Drug resistant TB,
• South Africa,
• MDR-TB