In-Depth: A Killer Quietly Gains Strength The

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)