World health je jučer objavila vijest o novoj vrsti tuberkuloze, nelječive sadašnjim ljekovima. Prvi slučajevi pojavili su se u Africi (gdje od te bolesti najviše strahuju oboljeli od AIDS-a), sjevernoj Americi i u istočnoj Europi.
Global alert over deadly new TB strains
· Disease untreatable with currently available drugs
· South African cases raise fears for Aids programme
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Wednesday September 6, 2006
World health officials last night put out an unprecedented warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe.
The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB. They have been identified and have killed people in several countries, including the United States and eastern Europe, and they have recently been found in Africa, where they could swiftly put an end to all hope of containing the Aids pandemic through treatment.