New drug slashes death rates among drug-resistant TB patients –scientists

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A new treatment for a deadly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure more than 90 per cent of sufferers, according to a landmark clinical trial whose results were revealed exclusively to AFP...

 

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Hope we won't abuse this one. No N/A on prescription refill, no fakery. There is need for food too. TB patients are usually cachexic.

Hope we won't abuse this one. No N/A on prescription refill, no fakery. There is need for food too. TB patients are usually cachexic.

Your lazy write ups for stories is really baffling, always click baiting people with headlines stolen from foreign media then end up not knowing what to write about the headline. Nonsense

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