XDR-TB
Following posts on photography sites and bulletin boards over recent weeks, photographer James Nachtwey’s latest project on the new world health crisis XDR-TB was launched around the world yesterday with simultaneous projections of his strong images of the effects that the devastating illness is currently having in 46 countries. The official website has the following to say about the project;
“XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely
drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through powerful photographs
taken by James Nachtwey. XDR-TB, or extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis,
is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis. Similar in creation to
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) but more extreme in its manifestation,
it arises when common tuberculosis goes untreated or standard TB drugs are
misused. James’ photographs represent these varying strains.”
Please forward the message to others so something can be done to prevent this developing into a global pandemic.
I’ve left my ‘voice’ thanks to you bringing this to my attention.
My Liege. Thanks for putting this up. I had seen it on youtube earlier.
On another note, saw your shot on the Beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7661616.stm
Nice find, bud! I never knew they did that on the BBC site. Cheers!
I saw this on The Big Picture website. I’m glad Nachtwey’s TED awards has allowed him to get some exposure for this, it’s just a shame that stories like this are so widely ignored by news outlets these days, especially in North America where network and 24 hour news channels are based on how entertaining or sensationalist (without suffering) the stories are.
Yeah, having watched CNN for a week in Cuba, it was fascinating to see that even though CNN is probably one of the more evenly balanced networks (and that’s being generous), there were still only two stories featured on every programme for the whole of our stay. There was probably 30 minutes of international news in the whole week. It’s terribly sad to see how much is ignored due to the networks belief that the population isn’t interested.