CDC Around the World: Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

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A LIFETIME COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING ONE OF THE WORLD’S DEADLIEST DISEASE The quest to cure tuberculosis (TB) is more than 15,000 years old. The tubercle baccilus was discovered by Robert Koch, MD, in 1882. From that initial discovery we have made dramatic strides in the diagnosis and treatment of this ancient disease. But it has only been in the past 70 years that we have developed effective anti-TB drugs to treat the nearly 10 million people around the globe who still fall sick to this disease every year... Read blog

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XDR-TB IS THE DEADLIEST AND MOST DANGEROUS STRAIN OF TUBERCULOSIS View full-sized infographic

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TB UNMASKED - SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS US CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden knows the global TB crisis from firsthand experience. With perspectives from Dr. Frieden, Uvi, Shelly, Susheela and Vivian, we examine the urgent need to protect our healthcare workers from the diseases they work to treat. There is more that we can do now, but the only permanent solution is the creation of an effective TB vaccine. Watch video

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SOUTH AFRICAN STUDY PROVIDES COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE ON ROLE OF PERSON TO PERSON TRANSMISSION IN DRUG-RESISTANT TB EPIDEMICS A joint Emory/CDC/NIH study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine provides compelling evidence that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is spreading primarily from person-to-person in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The study builds on a growing body of evidence showing that person-to-person transmission is a key driver of the spread of drug-resistant TB in some countries with high burden of disease... Read story

In the News

Spread of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis sparks concerns STAT NewsJanuary 18, 2017 Why Is Extensively Drug-Resistant TB On The Rise? NPR Goats and SodaJanuary 18, 2017 Tom Frieden, Head Of Atlanta-based CDC, To Resign WABEJanuary 5, 2017 Medical detectives raced to save a man from a rare, ‘universally lethal’ disease The Washington PostDecember 22, 2016

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