WHO: Money, drugs needed to rein in new TB strains

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 03/23/2009 - 06:22

BEIJING (AP) -- More money and better science are urgently needed to rein in new strains of tuberculosis that are tough or nearly impossible to treat, the WHO announced Monday in China, where the disease has long been a leading killer....


 

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