The epidemic of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) may be larger than previously suspected, according to an Article in The Lancet. The study found anti-TB drug resistance in virtually all of the 79 countries surveyed, with particularly high levels in areas of the former Soviet Union and some provinces of China.About a third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 8.9 million people develop the disease annually, and in 2004, 1. [click link for full article]
(more...)