Thursday 18 October 2012

Disease

New tuberculosis, (TB) cases fall by 2.2 percent globally according to the WHO. An antibiotic used to treat severe bacterial infections has shown promise at treating the highly drug-resistant and deadly form of tuberculosis, which threatens to derail progress in fighting the disease.


The number of deaths from the fungal meningitis outbreak in USA linked to contaminated steroid medications has risen to 19, just hours after federal agents raided the offices of the company at the center of the scandal and took away documents.

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