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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:Not *totally* drug resistant by NatasRevol · 2012-01-13 07:12 · Score: 1, Troll

Sorry, but that's not THE answer. It's AN answer. And a very expensive & unpractical one.
The answer that will be done is...natural selection.

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Re:Watch out Indonesia by Archangel+Michael · 2012-01-13 07:34 · Score: 1, Troll

I reserve my humanity for people who act humanely. Is that bad?
On the other hand, not everyone in prison did something inhumane.

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