Increase in super-resistent TB

Health experts have reported a disturbing increase around the world in tuberculosis infections resistant to antibiotics.

Increase in super-resistent TB

Health experts have reported a disturbing increase around the world in tuberculosis infections resistant to antibiotics.

ā€œIt’s basically a death sentence. If people are failing first and second-line drugs and we don’t have in the pipeline a new drug for immediate use, that’s a crisis,ā€ said Dr Marcos Espinale, executive secretary of the World Health Organisation’s Stop TB Partnership.

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