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Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226171134776
Aussies in Torres Strait hit by a mutant strain of TB
* by: Sean Parnell and Sarah Elks
* From: The Australian
* October 20, 2011 12:00AM
TWO Australians living in the Torres Strait have developed a potentially deadly strain of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.
They are the first cases resulting from a failure to adequately treat the disease in Papua New Guineans.
Amid a debate over the planned closure of two Queensland-run TB clinics in the Torres Strait, ostensibly on financial grounds, the spread of the mutant strain has exposed the difficulty Australia has containing PNG's health problems...
Aussies in Torres Strait hit by a mutant strain of TB
* by: Sean Parnell and Sarah Elks
* From: The Australian
* October 20, 2011 12:00AM
TWO Australians living in the Torres Strait have developed a potentially deadly strain of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.
They are the first cases resulting from a failure to adequately treat the disease in Papua New Guineans.
Amid a debate over the planned closure of two Queensland-run TB clinics in the Torres Strait, ostensibly on financial grounds, the spread of the mutant strain has exposed the difficulty Australia has containing PNG's health problems...