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How to Stop the Fast March of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
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Public health professionals have warned about drug-resistant tuberculosis for years. Now comes news out of India and China to feed the concern.
Doctors in India have documented more than a dozen cases of TB so tenacious, it responds to no known drug. This is a scary proposition in a country where 2 million of the world’s 9 million annual TB cases occur and where malnutrition, overcrowding and a weak health system create a hotbed for the often-fatal disease.