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Monday, September 20, 2004

 

TB May Be Global Threat Again

`Two separate studies show that multiple-drug-resistant TB, which can only be cured with a carefully monitored cocktail of drugs taken for months on end, could easily start spreading more commonly. [..]

They developed separate mathematical models that show it would be easy for multi-drug-resistant TB to out-compete other strains and spread.

“We should not be reassured by studies that suggest mutated TB is less transmissible,” said Murray.’




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