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...Peru, PIH is helping to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and the myth that it cannot be treated in poor communities. Farmer reports that rates of these strains of TB are going down with long-term consistent use of drugs...
WASHINGTON: When both the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control sound the alarm, you can be sure it's something serious. Their joint survey on tuberculosis, released Wednesday, warns that avirtually incurable strain of TB is spreading rapidly ? and no country, developing or developed, is safe...
...latest strain, an airborne bacterium, is called Multi-Drug Resistant TB. It occurs in TB patients who did not complete courses of antibiotics ? meaning the bacteria learns to tolerate the drugs already in the system. The study found MDR TB 'hot zones' in one-third of the 35 countries surveyed. Alarmingly high incidences were reported in the Baltic states and the Dominican Republic...
...tackle MDR? Direct observed treatment is the answer, says Gorman ? making sure that TB patients complete each course of drugs prevents bacterial resistance. In other words, keep taking the pills...
...make choices," she says. "Sometimes you can decide to do one thing, and to do that one thing really well." McHarg has assigned her, along with De Wit and another doctor, to a flying satellite team that roams from village to village treating kala-azar and tuberculosis. TB is a special problem today because kala-azar has so weakened the Nuer's immune system that any subsequent infection is often fatal. In August, McHarg dispatched Seaman to Ethiopia to survey a new outbreak of kala-azar. Seaman is also working on a pilot project to try out a drug...