Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again

Iphtashu Fitz writes "The journal Nature Medicine is due to release a report today on how highly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are on the verge of becoming a global epidimic. Strains of TB that are highly resistant to antibiotics are becoming increasingly prevalent in places like Russia, eastern Europe, and China, and only small changes are required to make these strains start spreading quickly. Treatment for multiple-drug-resistant strains of TB requires a carefully monitored cocktail of drugs taken for months on end, a regimin that many, especially in poorer countries are unlikely to follow to completion. The strategy used by the World Health Organization to combat TB, the "directly observed treatment, short course" or DOTS, involves using trained health workers to watch patients take their long courses of drugs, since even a little carelessness could result in TB mutating into a more drug resistant form within the patient." Oh, Alexander Fleming ^? where art thou now?

Comments

Re:It's about time...

[MalaclypseTheYounger]

Awww. How quaint, a knee-jerk American response! A Bush man! Probably lives near Texas!

You mention murder while attempting to make a post about saving lives. How rhetorical!

If we would just get a little more murder on these days (on a massive scale) we wouldn't need big plagues, new diseases, etc, etc, to control our population. But everyone has to be SOOO P.C. nowadays... can't start major world wars, perform ethnic cleansing, stage a bloody coup, use nuclear weapons... so we get more and more populated, more disease grows and spread, and kills off 1/3 of us. YAY! More oxygen for the rest of us! Less Hummer H2's on the road while we try to go to work! Think of how much shorter the lines will be at the supermarket!

Humans die. It's what we do. It's what you will do. It's what your family will do. It's what your neighbors will do. Just accept that fact, and live your life to the fullest.

Just don't start bitching and moaning about "I didn't have enough time, I didn't get to do this or that, I never told so-and-so I loved them" because you're a procrastinating a-hole that thinks you're God and are going to live forever...

You get fed this line about how, like, you're gonna live forever or whatever. You're gonna die. Someone'll kill ya. Someone'll kill ya with a knife. You make sure your abs are, uh, friggin' ripped; you got some good guns! You wanna look good for when you get stabbed with a knife. Sorry, that's how it works...