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Drug Resistant TB 'Rising in UK'
May 2, 2008
Drug resistant tuberculosis is posing a growing threat in the UK, probably fuelled by immigration, say experts.
A Health Protection Agency team examined 28,620 TB infections in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2005.
They found the proportion of cases resistant to any of the first-line drugs rose from 5.6 percent to 7.9 percent.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 5 May 2008
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