Afghanistan is one of two countries in the world along with neighboring Pakistan where the highly infectious and incurable disease continues to crippled children.
Coming to grips with this latest aggressive form of the disease (which doctors say is incurable but can be managed through treatment) has been a process.
Hearts were pounding hideously, gearing up for futures full of incurable aneurysms. The entire crew suffered from a nervous excitement that it's beyond me to describe.
One particularly dangerous technique called sandblasting involves spraying jeans with fine sand at high pressures and has been linked with numerous cases of incurable and often fatal lung disease.