TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India

[marmar]

from NPR:


Tuberculosis specialists in India have diagnosed infections in a dozen patients in Mumbai that are unfazed by the three first-choice TB drugs and all nine second-line drugs.

The doctors are calling them "totally drug-resistant TB," and the infections are essentially incurable with all available medicines.

It's a sobering development. Infectious disease specialists say there will surely be more such cases in India and other countries where cases of TB that resist some but not all drugs are being inadequately treated.

Poor care is fueling the development of the superbugs. "The vast majority of these unfortunate patients seek care from private physicians in a desperate attempt to find a cure for their tuberculosis," the Indian specialists write in Clinical Infectious Diseases. "The majority of these prescriptions were inappropriate and would only have served to further amplify resistance." ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/12/145027086/a-dozen-cases-of-tuberculosis-that-resists-all-drugs-found-in-india?ps=sh_sthdl

[dembotoz]

1. and they say there is no such thing as evolution......

when my wife developed leukemia some 26 years ago, she also had a dormant strain of tb.

when she got chemo
the resistance to the tb was removed and the tb went nuts.

nasty nasty shit.

the antibiotics seemed as bad as the chemo.

Cause of death was leukemia but it was the tb that damaged her to the extent that
treatments such as bone marrow transplants were not an option.

[xchrom]

2. Du rec. Nt

[MrScorpio]

3. We're fucked. nt