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I wish India were doing as well in controlling tuberculosis. Both a newspaper in the United States, which did much to break the story,[1] and a newspaper from I
by tokenadult 13y ago
I wish India were doing as well in controlling tuberculosis. Both a newspaper in the United States, which did much to break the story,[1] and a newspaper from India[2] are in agreement with official sources from both countries[3][4] that much more needs to be done to stop the spread of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in India, which could threaten the health of the whole world. (A century and a half ago, tuberculosis was perhaps the world's leading cause of death.)
[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303444204577460734274201756 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230344420...
[2] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-23/news/40134749_1_stop-tb-department-mario-raviglione-jmm-meeting http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-23/news...
[3] http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Facing-the-Reality-of-Drug-Resistant-Tuberculosis-Challenges-and-Potential-Solutions-in-India.aspx http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Facing-the-Reality-of-Drug-R...
[4] http://www.tbcindia.nic.in/pdfs/RNTCP%20Response%20DR%20TB%20in%20India%20-%20Jan%202012%20update.pdf http://www.tbcindia.nic.in/pdfs/RNTCP%20Response%20DR%20TB%2...
- dharmach 13y agoNot directly relevant. Not required to add "ifs" and "buts" to each story.
- tokenadult 13y agoI wonder if policy in India on generic drugs has some relevance to treatment of tuberculosis. In any event, there is a grave threat to world health from multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis, and I hope they are correspondingly urgent efforts to deal with the problem in India, the center of this dangerous new infectious disease.
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