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March 26, 2006
CDC Concerned about TB Drug Resistance
Posted by Owen Barder at 11:36 PM
According to DigitalJournal.com:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has compiled what it says is the first global survey of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis, which kills 5,000 to 8,000 people every day. The survey, conducted by laboratories on all six continents, found growing resistance to TB drugs worldwide, a development the CDC says means some patients are "virtually untreatable" with existing drugs. The CDC calls tuberculosis that is resistant to old and new antibiotic drugs "extensively drug-resistant TB," or XDR.
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the disease is also in Liberia that is killing lot of people in Liberia we will highly appreciate if we can be part of the information to you and also from you people us
Posted by: Marion S. Mendimasa at April 3, 2006 10:37 AM