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With a treatment costing about £100,000 per person? In American dollars that's about...$200,000. But with the wonderful health care system we have here in the States we have nothing to worry about...oh wait...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/21/health
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/21/health
guardian.co.uk said:Strains of TB which are resistant to the two main antibiotics used to treat it have been spreading across the globe and complicating treatment for some years. About 1% of the 8,497 cases reported in the UK in 2006 showed multiple drug resistance.
XDR-TB, however, is a new and still more alarming phenomenon, showing resistance to both first and second-line drugs. Treatment takes 12 to 18 months and costs more than £100,000 a patient. An outbreak would place a huge financial burden on local health authorities.
The 'White Death': An old threat returns
Tuberculosis, once known as the White Death, ceased to be a big threat to the UK after the discovery of antibiotics. But the disease that killed Keats and at least two of the Brontë sisters has appeared in a new, deadly form with the identification of a case that appears resistant to most known drugs.