One nurse's quest to track down TB on the eastern edge of Greenland
The town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, sits perched on the shore of a natural harbor in a dramatic fjord. It is the most populous community on Greenland's east coast, with just slightly more than 2000 inhabitants. It is also home to a concerning number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, with a TB rate of 900 cases per 100 000 population. In comparison, the average rate among the 53 countries of the WHO European Region was 37 per 100 000 in 2014.