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Hold on, before we get in to a confusing argument of terms, does this strain of tuberculosis have one of highest mortality rates per infection or not? If so, t
by whiddershins 7y ago
Hold on, before we get in to a confusing argument of terms, does this strain of tuberculosis have one of highest mortality rates per infection or not?
If so, the headline is more or less accurate.
If not, please explain.
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- classichasclass 7y agoApologies for the Elsevier link, but https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(17)30079-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2... The report estimates around 40% mortality for MDR-TB and 60% mortality for XDR-TB. This compares with https://www.who.int/gho/tb/epidemic/cases_deaths/en/ https://www.who.int/gho/tb/epidemic/cases_deaths/en/ which gives about ~13% mortality for all TB cases world wide. So, I think the headline is accurate about that. However, we could cure (at least for some definition of "cure") XDR-TB before; it just took an incredible amount of time with some terrible drugs and some individuals still relapsed. Pa could be a game changer, though. I'll give it a "somewhat justifiably clickbaity" rating. ;)