{"id":14033,"date":"2012-08-30T03:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-found-across-the-world\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T03:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:25:23","slug":"drug-resistant-tuberculosis-found-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-found-across-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug resistant tuberculosis found across the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Eight country study finds high rates of drug resistance<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Resistant strains more costly to treat, often more fatal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Almost 9 million people a year get TB, 1.4 million die<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Kate Kelland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Scientists have found alarming<br \/>\nlevels of the lung disease tuberculosis in Africa, Asia, Europe<br \/>\nand Latin America that are resistant to up to four powerful<br \/>\nantibiotic drugs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a large international study published in the Lancet<br \/>\nmedical journal on Thursday, researchers found rates of both<br \/>\nmulti drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant<br \/>\nTB (XDR-TB) were higher than previously thought and were<br \/>\nthreatening global efforts to curb the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most international recommendations for TB control have been<br \/>\ndeveloped for MDR-TB prevalence of up to around 5 percent. Yet<br \/>\nnow we face prevalence up to 10 times higher in some places,<br \/>\nwhere almost half of the patients &#8230; are transmitting MDR<br \/>\nstrains,&#8221; Sven Hoffner of the Swedish Institute for Communicable<br \/>\nDisease Control, said in a commentary on the study.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>TB is already a worldwide pandemic that in 2010 infected 8.8<br \/>\n million people and killed 1.4 million of them.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drug-resistant TB is more difficult and costly than normal<br \/>\nTB to treat, and is more often fatal.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Eight country study finds high rates of drug resistance * Resistant strains more costly to treat, often more fatal * Almost 9 million people a year get TB, 1.4 million die By Kate Kelland LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Scientists have found alarming levels of the lung disease tuberculosis in Africa, Asia, Europe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}