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04 Jul 2008
Source: Reuters
 
An inmate holds a cigarette with his tattoo-covered hand in the yard of the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) ward in a prison hospital in the Siberian city of Tomsk, about 3500 km (2175 miles) east of Moscow, June 4, 2008. In the mid-1990s, virulent tuberculosis was killing prisoners here every week, but with the help of a group of American doctors, the jail near one of the world's biggest swamps has set an example to others worldwide dealing with drug-resistant TB. Picture taken June 4, 2008. To match feature RUSSIA/TUBERCULOSIS REUTERS/Thomas Peter (RUSSIA)
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A drunk man lies in the hallway of a housing estate in the town of Melnikovo, near the Siberian city of Tomsk, about 3500 km (2175 miles) east of Moscow, in ...


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