BEIJING (Reuters) - Health officials gathered in Beijing on Wednesday warned against deadly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, which are spreading fastest in developing countries that lack the infrastructure to tackle the disease.
Over half of new cases of tuberculosis that are resistant to multiple drugs are resistant right from the start, and not as a direct result of substandard treatment, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned.
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