Tuesday 2 September 2008

New hope for TB patients

NEW DELHI: It's a scourge that has
coughed its agency into India and mortally affects an estimated 3.2 lakh Indians
annually. What's scary is that TB, so far restricted to new cases and multi-drug
resistant (MDR-TB) ones, has mutated into the more deadly and incurable multifariousness
� extensively drug-resistant tB (XDR-TB). However, a Lancet
report published just days agone, brings