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Drug-resistant TB strains worry experts
Published: March. 21, 2010 at 2:52 PM
LOS ANGELES, March 21 (UPI) -- Tuberculosis cases are falling dramatically in the United States, but drug-resistant strains of the disease are rising in other areas of the world, reports say.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported U.S. cases of the disease fell by 11.8 percent in 2009, the largest yearly drop since monitoring began in 1953, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
But the World Health Organization reported an estimated 440,000 people contracted multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in 2008, and a third of them died, the newspaper said...
Drug-resistant TB strains worry experts
Published: March. 21, 2010 at 2:52 PM
LOS ANGELES, March 21 (UPI) -- Tuberculosis cases are falling dramatically in the United States, but drug-resistant strains of the disease are rising in other areas of the world, reports say.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported U.S. cases of the disease fell by 11.8 percent in 2009, the largest yearly drop since monitoring began in 1953, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
But the World Health Organization reported an estimated 440,000 people contracted multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in 2008, and a third of them died, the newspaper said...