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XDR-TB

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XDR-TBExtensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis


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With TED's funding, Nachtwey travelled to countries as diverse as Cambodia, Siberia, Rwanda and India, documenting the depredations of XDR-TB and the efforts of governments and NGOs to pioneer new treatment programmes that may arrest the disease's progression.
A virulent, mutated strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB is found in 49 countries and is blamed for more than 20,000 preventable deaths annually.
Infection with the XDR-TB strain leaves a paucity of treatment choices in the armamentarium of antibiotics.
 
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