India's Ministry of Health dismisses claims of 'totally drug-resistant' TB

Jan 21 2012

In a January 17 statement, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare "dismissed reports that a form of incurable tuberculosis [TB] has arrived in the country," saying "that a team of doctors sent by the ministry found that seven of the patients are responding to treatment" and the cases would be classified and managed as extremely drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), Nature News Blog reports (Jayaraman, 1/19). "Earlier, doctors in Mumbai said 12 patients had a 'totally drug resistant' form of TB, and three had died," according to BBC News. "A WHO official in India told the BBC that there is no recognized case of totally drug resistant TB anywhere in the world," the news service writes (1/20).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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