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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?
this is a direct result of Illigal Imigration and not health screening people wanting to enter the US. y.
What a pathetic load of crap. Please try to keep your facile fortune cookie-isms to yourself.
Bill Gates' "bad deeds" are in the minds of a few pathetic, bitter nerds who resent his success.
His "good deeds" are in helping to stop real suffering and to generally make the world a better place.
Grow up, nerd. Microsoft's misdeads are entirely in your mind and in the minds of their competitors, and the cheap politicans whom their competitors have bought out.