WHO urges Asian nations to tackle tuberculosis threat

news.ph.msn.com — The failure of Asian nations to fight the spread of highly lethal, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis poses a threat to global public health security, the World Health Organisation warned Monday.Each untreated patient could infect five to 10 people a year, and an uncontrolled local epidemic could spread across national borders, it said."Only one percent of the estimated 150,000 people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)... in East Asia and the Pacific are getting appropriate treatment," the WHO said in a statement."We are more vulnerable than ever to the MDR-TB threat," it said. "Countries must act responsively to safeguard global health."

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