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Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:44AM from the it's-all-darwin's-fault dept.

ananyo writes "Physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease (abstract). Although reports call this latest form a 'new entity,' researchers suggest that it is instead another development in a long-standing problem. The discovery makes India the third country in which a completely drug-resistant form of the disease has emerged, following cases documented in Italy in 2007 and Iran in 2009."

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Re:Cough... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-13 06:52 · Score: 5, Funny

that small cough doesn't sound so good. Take all these antibiotics
That explains that weird call to customer support by elrous0 · 2012-01-13 06:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I was wondering why "Bob" kept coughing.

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Re:Not *totally* drug resistant by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-13 07:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Pssh, your anti-anti-anti ban movement isn't fooling anyone.
Re:Not *totally* drug resistant by localman57 · 2012-01-13 07:46 · Score: 5, Funny

And how do you plan to crucify the patients who do not take the full course of antibiotics they are prescribed?

I assume he plans to use nails. Is that how pretty much everybody does it?