An Ounce of Gold for a Pound of Cure

But more than being a precious metal and a hedge against financial apocalypse, the world's gold binge is fueling one of the world's most deadly epidemics -- tuberculosis (TB). The disease was imported to the mines of Africa in the lungs of British coal miners, more than one hundred years ago. Now, in open pits and mine shafts around the continent, this insidious, deadly pathogen is wreaking havoc on the profitability and sustainability of an entire industry and the workers who pull the ore from the earth.
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