Drug-resistant TB in the Philippines & 7 other countries

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Researchers sounded the alarm about drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Lancet medical journal.  They studied 8 countries and found 43.7% of TB patients did not respond to at least one second-line TB drug, used when the most powerful first-line drugs fail.  The study covered Estonia, Latvia, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand.  In the Philippines, part of what causes the problem is the over-prescription of antibiotics or the failure to take the full prescribed course, which can allow the bacteria which causes TB to develop resistance to the drug.

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