India's Ministry Of Health Dismisses Claims Of 'Totally Drug-Resistant' TB
Friday, January 20, 2012
In a January 17 statement, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare "dismissed�reports that a form of incurable tuberculosis [TB] has arrived in the country," saying "that a team of doctors sent by the ministry found that seven of the patients are responding to treatment" and the cases would be classified and managed as extremely drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB),�Nature News Blog reports (Jayaraman, 1/19). "Earlier, doctors in Mumbai said 12 patients had a 'totally drug resistant' form of TB, and three had died," according to BBC News. "A WHO official in India told the BBC that there is no recognized case of totally drug resistant TB anywhere in the world," the news service writes (1/20).
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