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AU: Drug resistent TB victim dies in Qld

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Source: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/bre...ctim-dies-in-qld/story-e6frg13c-1226598480647

Drug resistent TB victim dies in Qld

by: Cleo Fraser
From: AAP
March 15, 2013 3:08PM

A YOUNG woman has died after contracting a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis in far north Queensland.

The Papua New Guinea woman is the first person in Australia to die from the superbug XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis).

Queensland chief health officer Jeanette Young confirmed a person from PNG had died from XDR-TB in Cairns, but would not comment on the specifics of the case...
 
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