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    Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8H59Q820120606

    TB survey in China finds drug resistance rife
    Thu Jun 7, 2012 2:30am IST

    * One in 10 new TB cases in China is resistant to drugs

    * China has more than a million new TB infections a year

    * Growing threat underlines need for rapid testing

    By Kate Kelland

    LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - Health experts are calling for faster testing of the 9 million people worldwide estimated to be infected with tuberculosis each year after a study in China found drug-resistant strains were rife.

    The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, gives the first nationwide estimate of the scale of the tuberculosis (TB) problem in China, where there are more than a million new infections every year...
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