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Extensively drug-resistant??tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the kind of germ that makes public-health officials go very pale when they talk about it. TB is bad enough, wasting bodies, ravaging lungs. The multi-- drug-resistant kind is worse. And XDR is the very rare but very awful strain that has all but exhausted the medical arsenal, leaving mainly faith and force as weapons: keep the patient isolated and hope that some treatment works against it, which happens in less than one-third of cases. The good news is that most people infected with the germ won't develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plague on a Plane. | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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