US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’
by Kat Lay, Global health correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#6VTBF)
Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze
Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts, a top doctor has warned.
Dr Lucica Ditiu, who heads the Stop TB Partnership, said she feared that interruptions to people's treatment would allow the airborne bug to mutate into a new, untreatable form.
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