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Drug-resistant TB spreading quickly in countries bordering Mongolia

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading throughout countries bordering Mongolia at a rate higher than seen at any time previously.

In China’s Inner Mongolia region, some 7.25 percent of new tuberculosis cases are of the drug-resistant strain.

World Health Officials are particularly alarmed by results showing 22.3 percent of new tuberculosis cases were drug-resistant in Baku, Azerbaijan. Serious rises in the disease have also been found in neighboring Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

As with other forms of tuberculosis, drug-resistant TB can be transferred from an infected person to a noninfected person.

Other areas showing high levels of the drug-resistant TB included Moldova (19.4 percent), Donetsk in Ukraine (16 percent), Tomsk, an oblast in Russia (15 percent), and Tashkent in Uzbekistan (14.8 percent).

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