XDR-TB

Factory Farm Superbugs See more at www.zinasaunders.com . From the folks who brought you E. coli and Salmonella, factory farms are breeding something new for the American Public drug-resistant Superbugs ! Development of New MDR-Tuberculosis Drugs (Pharmacology – Research, Safety Testing and Regulation) drug resistance – click on the image below for more information. The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, particularly of MDR-TB and newly XDR-TB, has become a major...Read Full Story

Tuberculosis , The Silent Killer Tuberculosis is a scourge on the civilization. From ages mysterious, Tuberculosis has killed a lot of a folks and has left numerous impoverished. And with the potential risks of MDRTB and recently located XDR TB lurking about coupled with HIV/AIDS, a whole lot has to be done to management and conquer this silent killer. Video clip Ranking: 4 / 5 Award-Successful Images Highlight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, an historic illness, kills 1...Read Full Story

ISLAMABAD: The discovery of a completely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis in the Indian city of Mumbai has rung alarm bells among medical practitioners and authorities worldwide, especially those working in TB prevention. The World Health Organisation itself is known to be organizing a meeting to assess the evidence and decide what to do next. This strain of TB, called Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, is resistant to all of the main TB drugs and may raise a situation where patients have...Read Full Story

How do you get examined for tuberculosis and hepititous ? I’m going to the docotor’s and I need to have to be examined for tuberculosis and hepititous b or some thing like that? (sorry about the spelling) Is it a shot or do they want to draw blood? p.s. Whats s sputum check? They want to draw blood.Hey, the examination for TB begins with a TB tine exam which is a tiny injection just beneath the skin on your forearm. You go again and have the region appeared at 72 hrs after to see if...Read Full Story

MUMBAI: It’s not just humans, animals, too, suffer from tuberculosis. While the strains causing the disease in the two are different-Mycobacterium bovis is the cause in animals and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans-reports from China and India suggest that cross-infection does happen. So, there have been research papers to show that buffaloes and cows have been suffering from the human variant of TB. And, at a time when the city’s public health machinery is gearing up to fight the...Read Full Story

Even as the health ministry continues to be in a denial mode over cases of totally-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) surfacing in Mumbai, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on Tuesday urged stakeholders working on the deadly disease to scale up services. “There is an urgent and critical need to scale up services, by stakeholders working for TB care. TB needs to be actively identified through approved, early, accurate and high quality diagnosis,” a spokesperson from the Partnership for TB...Read Full Story

Tuberculosis on the decline for first time ever – UN report   The United Nations health agency reportedtoday that for the first time the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining, but warned that current progress is at risk due to under-funding. New data, published in the World Health Organization (WHO) 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control Report, shows that the number of people who fell ill with TB dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, after peaking at 9 million in...Read Full Story

The Central Team that visited Mumbai to examine the reported Drug resistant cases has submitted its report to the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad. The following points emerged unanimously from the consultations held at Mumbai: – The reported cases by Hinduja hospital fall only within the category of Extensively Drug Resistant TB (XDR TB) based on standard WHO definitions and not at all as “Totally Drug Resistant” TB (TDR TB). – TDR TB is a non standard term...Read Full Story

LONDON ( Reuters ) - Europe's health is suffering, with around 80,000 cases of tuberculosis infection a year and serious problems with measles, HIV and threats from "superbug" infections, an annual health report on the region said Thursday. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which monitors disease in EU , said its 2011 report sends "worrying signals" on epidemics of measles, and shows that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is still being...Read Full Story

LONDON ( Reuters ) - Europe's health is suffering, with around 80,000 cases of tuberculosis infection a year and serious problems with measles, HIV and threats from "superbug" infections, an annual health report on the region said Thursday. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which monitors disease in EU , said its 2011 report sends "worrying signals" on epidemics of measles, and shows that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is still being...Read Full Story