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Media reports on TB exaggerated, dangerous: MEC
Media reports on TB exaggerated, dangerous: MEC
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Peggy Nkonyeni, the KwaZulu-Natal health MEC, has accused the media of exaggerating facts when reporting about XDR-TB in Msinga. Nkonyeni was speaking at a tuberculosis (TB) blitz campaign in the area.
She says Msinga residents have lost hope because they believe TB is not curable. Nkonyeni says such media reports have led to the stigmatisation of the people of Msinga.
Felinkosi Skhakhane, the local mayor, concurs saying people from other areas and provinces do not want to be in contact with people of the area because they fear they will contract the disease. He has urged the community to take their TB treatment as prescribed.
XDR-TB has claimed more than 70 lives
Msinga has been under the spotlight since the discovery of the deadly XDR-TB in the local hospital last year. This strain has claimed the lives of more than 70 people - mainly in KZN.
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa...136684,00.html
At least 182 people have been killed by TB in the area. Sixty of them had been infected with the deadly multi-drug resistant strain of the disease, called MDR-TB.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle>A KZN community has been urged to follow the prescribed TB treatment administered
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>October 14, 2006, 14:45Peggy Nkonyeni, the KwaZulu-Natal health MEC, has accused the media of exaggerating facts when reporting about XDR-TB in Msinga. Nkonyeni was speaking at a tuberculosis (TB) blitz campaign in the area.
She says Msinga residents have lost hope because they believe TB is not curable. Nkonyeni says such media reports have led to the stigmatisation of the people of Msinga.
Felinkosi Skhakhane, the local mayor, concurs saying people from other areas and provinces do not want to be in contact with people of the area because they fear they will contract the disease. He has urged the community to take their TB treatment as prescribed.
XDR-TB has claimed more than 70 lives
Msinga has been under the spotlight since the discovery of the deadly XDR-TB in the local hospital last year. This strain has claimed the lives of more than 70 people - mainly in KZN.
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa...136684,00.html
At least 182 people have been killed by TB in the area. Sixty of them had been infected with the deadly multi-drug resistant strain of the disease, called MDR-TB.