According the U.S. State Department, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF, the world's greatest infectious killer is not malaria, AIDS, or TB, but poop. An estimated 2.6 billion people, about 40% of the world's population, including 1 billion children, have no access to toilets of any kind and must practice open defecation. The result is a continual pandemic of intestinal afflictions that kill 2 million people a year. In this episode of Vanguard, Adam Yamaguchi travels to India and Indonesia to see how the toiletless world deals with poop. It's in the streets, in the fields and, most dangerously, in the very water from which they drink. When it doesn't go down the toilet, poop is everywhere. Adam travels to India and Singapore to investigate what's being done to curb this silent epidemic. “The World's Toilet Crisis” airs Wednesday, June 9 at 10/9c. For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard . “Vanguard,” airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories. added by: Adam_Yamaguchi
