Broadcast Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 1:00am
If you saw an infectious disease outbreak, would you run far, far away? Dr Meru Sheel runs towards it.
Meru grew up in India, where diseases like polio and tuberculosis made people around her extremely sick. It made her want to help.
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