5% of TB Cases Don't React to Some Drugs

About one in every 20 new cases of tuberculosis worldwide is now resistant to two or more drugs, and in some regions of the former Soviet Union the proportion is closer to one in every five cases, the World Health Organization reported yesterday.
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