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TB: Return of the Plague
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TB: Return of the Plague

Mar 17, 2014
1h 28m
★ 4.0

Overview

TB is the most deadly infectious disease in history - it has killed over a billion people in the last 200 years. Multi-BAFTA winning film-maker, Jezza Neumann travelled to Swaziland to make this very intimate account of the crippling effects of MDR-TB. We witness victims from two families battle with the disease over the course of a year.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

BBC Four

Cast

Hugh Bonneville

Himself

Hugh Bonneville

Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa

Himself

Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa

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