Friday, July 27, 2007

SA Expert Warns Of Global XDR TB Pandemic

Dr Jerome Amir Singh , head of Ethics and Health Law at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, has warned in an article written on an African-based website that a global XDR-TB was a very real possibility because the SA still refuses to quarantine XDR-TB patients - instead treating most of them in crowded outpatient clinics where they rapidly infect others with the incurable, fast-killing lung disease:-Continue

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