Tuberculosis resistant to all known treatments: Not unexpected, but the potential danger cannot be overestimated

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2012/06/20/tuberculosis-strain-raises-concern-in-india/


Tuberculosis Strain Raises Concern in India


"Spread of the strain that is resistant to all known treatments could return tuberculosis to the fatal plague that killed two-thirds of people afflicted before modern treatments were developed in the 1940s, said Mario Raviglione, director of the Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization."