Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Doctor's orders

"The drug resistant forms of TB have developed largely because patients don't stick to their six-month course of treatment."

So it really does pay to obey doctor's orders. This form of TB, known as XDR-TB (eXtremely Drug Resistant) is apparently found in the Soviet Republics and southern Africa...and perhaps other places that doctors and researchers haven't heard about yet.

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