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BBC Documentaries: Season 2010

2010x31 Make Me a New Face: Hope for Africa's Hidden Children
TV-PG

  • 2010-06-09T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
In 2008 Ben Fogle caught a flesh-eating disease called leishmaniasis which, if untreated, would have destroyed his face. In this film, Ben investigates a sickness that's far worse but virtually unheard of - noma, which eats away the faces of thousands of Africa's poorest children. Ninety per cent of noma victims die while survivors are left terribly disfigured.
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