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Posted Mon Nov 10 2008: from Science Daily (US):
XDR-TB: Deadlier And More Mysterious Than Ever http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1226347990
 New research has found that XDR-TB is increasingly common and more deadly than previously known. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a growing public health threat that is only just beginning to be understood by medical and public health officials.... Over the three to seven years that the study's patient population was monitored, approximately 50 percent of those identified with XDR-TB died, which was a mortality rate similar to untreated TB patients in South India, and one that becomes even worse with HIV co-infection.
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