WHO says drug-resistant TB spreads fast »
Posted By STONERS 1 year, 8 months ago in StyleDrug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the highest ever recorded, the U.N. agency said.
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"Experts also worry about the spread of XDR-TB, or extensively drug-resistant TB, a strain virtually untreatable in poor countries. When an XDR-TB outbreak was identified in AIDS patients in South Africa in 2006, it killed nearly every patient within weeks. WHO's report said XDR-TB has now been found in 45 countries."
"Multi-drug resistant TB is a threat to every person on the planet," Harrington said. "It's not like HIV, where you are only infected through specific actions. TB is a threat to every person who takes a train or a plane."
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Charlson1 year, 8 months ago
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When I was a child I was exposed to TB and would test positive in tests but did not have any symptoms. When I was in my late twenties I took a series of pills that was supposed to build up antibodies that would later protect me from developing the disease. So far so good. A pleasant side effect was that I was allergic to many airborne antigens before taking the pills and a few years later my allergies disappeared.
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