Turkmenistan - fear of failure

Turkmenistan's health care problems - or the more repressive measures taken by the government - are rarely news. Amusing articles poke fun at the Presidents cult of personality but if health diseasters are covered up it may not be a laughing matter. Some see the country as a potential source for infectious disease outbreaks, like the bubonic plague, and fear it is headed for 'failed state' status more from the BBC...