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Inuk woman 'begging and pleading' for help fighting tuberculosis in Nunavut | CBC News

8.8.18

Kieran Oudshoorn // Inuk woman 'begging and pleading' for help fighting tuberculosis in Nunavut | CBC News: Nunavut is fighting a tuberculosis crisis. Though it's a curable bacterial disease of the lungs, when left untreated, it can be fatal. Nunavut has a tuberculosis rate of 261 cases per 100,000.

Clarke has spent all her life in Nunavut, raising her two children in Iqaluit. She says living in her homeland among Inuit is important to her, but she's angry her children are 300 times more likely to contract TB than children in the south.

"Why are we dying from TB?" said Clarke in tears.


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