Crisis worsens
the most comprehensive report of the tuberculosis menace worldwide has unveiled worrying levels of drug-resistant strains of the infectious disease. Patients in Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan and Estonia are 10 times more likely to have multi-drug resistant (mdr) tuberculosis than those residing in other countries, reveals the report of the World Health Organization (who).
The document is based on the assessment of one-fifth of the world's new tuberculosis cases reported from 77 countries in 2002-03. During the period, nine million new tuberculosis cases were reported every year, with two million deaths (see:
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