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Saturday, August 3, 2013

HEALTH CRISIS - NORTH KOREA; Tuberculosis (from Motherboard)



Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in North Korea Is a Bigger Problem Than Previously Thought



Eugene Bell researchers test a patient for TB at the Sadong TB Center. Photo: Eugene Bell Foundation
For years, the tuberculosis treatment strategy in North Korea was to give patients a short stint of antibiotics, let them get better, and then send them back into the world. This strategy worked for a while, but eventually North Korean doctors noticed the same patients kept coming back in--a sign of that antibiotic resistance had developed in the bacteria that causes the disease.
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