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Population:1,136,334
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=text style="COLOR: #747474">September 16, 2006, 16 hours, 5 minutes and 4 seconds ago.</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=text style="COLOR: #996600">By Motshidisi Baloyi </TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Johannesburg (AND) At least 35 people in Swaziland have been diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=text>According to The Times of Swaziland the patients have been kept in isolation.
XDR-TB, which has hit neighbouring South Africa, is resistant to most if not all nine drugs available to treat the disease.
The patients have been kept in isolation as authorities fear the infection could reach epidemic scales.
TB Unit programme manager, Themba Dlamini, has warned that the number of patients who are in isolation must not be underrated because for a country of Swaziland?s size the figure is massive.
Dlamini added that the strain develops from a similar problem like the deadly extreme strain that has broke out in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, where 52 people have died.
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