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....
...Even in the United States, which has the best medicines available, a third of those who have been diagnosed with XDR-TB have died....
...One of the reasons the WHO is concerned is that tuberculosis spreads easily in confined places, such as aircraft....
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Global alert over deadly new TB strainsIts symptoms - red swollen eyes, pale skin, coughing blood...
In the early 19th century TB was rampant, responsible for up to one in four of all deaths in England. It spread through tiny particles released when an infected patient coughed or sneezed...
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