http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46782295/ns/health-infectious_diseases/#.T3PFhWGPU_c
Although most people think that tuberculosis is over and done with, just a thing of the past, it has started to make a comeback and hitting home, closer than you may think. Just recently a woman in London was found to have this so-called "White Plague" even though she lives in a modern, and fairly wealthy area of the world. The most troubling aspect of this story is that this tuberculosis is resistant to what is now reviewed as 12 different drugs due to misdiagnosis among doctors giving to small of dosages. These small doses weren't enough to kill the tuberculosis, but instead became resistant to that medicine. This is very commonly seen in India, and makes sense as to why they have the most cases of this drug-resistant tuberculosis. The fact that a drug-resistant disease is making its way into developed countries as well sparks some fears that it can easily affect anyone. If spread it would cause a large outbreak due to the fact that it is airborne, and since it is drug-resistant it would take a lot of work to cure it, and the medicine would most likely be expensive. Just because tuberculosis isn't something that you see everyday doesn't mean that it doesn't deserve attention because you never know when it just might strike.
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