Deadly TB strain in new EU countries
Tuberculosis patients in some of the countries joining the European Union in May are 10 times more likely to have the most deadly strain of the disease than the rest of the world, a new report showed today.
A World Health organisation survey of more than 67,000 TB patients in 77 countries, published in Brussels, identifies three new member states – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – as among those in eastern Europe and Central Asia where multi drug-resistant TB, known as MDR-TB, is rampant.
