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Experts worried about ?alarming? rate of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Myanmar
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, August 22, 2013 16:47 EDT
Health officials called Thursday for urgent action to tackle ?alarming? rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Myanmar where nearly 9,000 people catch the strain of the infectious disease each year.
Treatment programmes in the impoverished nation ? where the healthcare system was left woefully underfunded during decades of military rule ? are expensive and ineffective leaving the deadly illness to spread unchecked, experts warned at a Yangon forum on the issue...
Experts worried about ?alarming? rate of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Myanmar
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, August 22, 2013 16:47 EDT
Health officials called Thursday for urgent action to tackle ?alarming? rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Myanmar where nearly 9,000 people catch the strain of the infectious disease each year.
Treatment programmes in the impoverished nation ? where the healthcare system was left woefully underfunded during decades of military rule ? are expensive and ineffective leaving the deadly illness to spread unchecked, experts warned at a Yangon forum on the issue...