ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 3月21日 22時29分

His family thought he just had a bad cold, nothing serious. But Victor Martínez kept getting worse. By mid-January, the 47-year-old lay in a hospital ward, wasting away from #tuberculosis. A month later, at his wake, relatives tried to reckon with the resurgence of a disease that many Venezuelans thought had been mostly confined to the history books. “Even the last thing you’d imagine is happening,” said Nileydys Yesenia Aurelia Martínez, Victor’s niece. Tuberculosis is making an aggressive comeback in #Venezuela, overwhelming a broken health care system. The illness has surged during a profound economic crisis that has driven an exodus of Venezuelans, including doctors. Though normally associated with the poor, tuberculosis has begun to stalk a broader population. Declining nutrition from food shortages and rising stress may be weakening immune systems, doctors say. (Here, @meridithkohut photographed María Tocuyo, 28, with her 1-year-old at a soup kitchen.) Experts now fear that the nation is teetering on the brink of a tuberculosis epidemic that could spill over its borders. “Tuberculosis is hitting us hard,” said Dr. Jacobus de Waard, the director of the tuberculosis laboratory at the Institute of Biomedicine in Caracas. “We’re losing the fight.” Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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