In-Depth: A Killer Quietly Gains Strength The
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In-Depth: A Killer Quietly Gains Strength
The Wall Street Journal is chronicling the world's imperfect response to the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis, an ancient disease that modern medicine, until recently, could defeat.
A selection of reports:
- India's emergency strategy to defeat drug-resistant TB may be having the opposite effect -- encouraging TB instead to mutate into more deadly and unstoppable strains (2/16/13)
- All along the edges of Western Europe , new and hard-to-defeat strains of tuberculosis are gaining a foothold (12/31/12)
- Deadly unintended consequences: The global TB-fighting strategy helped allow the spread of new, all-but-untreatable strains . (11/23/12)
- Exclusive numbers suggest more than 25% of patients at one Indian TB clinic don't respond to the primary treatment. (11/23/12)
- One woman's case of nearly incurable tuberculosis echoes around the world. (9/8/12)
- India's slow reaction appears to be nurturing an all-but-untreatable strain of TB, raising the prospect of a global health hazard. (6/20/12)
- A top doctor in Mumbai reports finding 12 cases of tuberculosis that are all but untreatable by current methods. (1/19/12)
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