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Deadly TB strain flies around the world

Government warning highlights global problem.

A man with a strain of tuberculosis that is immune to nearly all drugs travelled from Atlanta to Paris to Prague to Montreal this month before the authorities caught up with him and got him into isolation.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on May 30, 2007 01:01 PM |

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