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...
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