Australia: First victim killed by super strain of tuberculosis, officials fear outbreak

Posted on March 18, 2013 • Filed under: Australia, Tourist Warning, Travel Health

As reported by couriermail.com, “AUSTRALIA’S first victim of a killer strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis has died amid warnings of a looming health epidemic on Queensland’s doorstep. Medical experts are seriously concerned about the handling of the TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea after Catherina Abraham died last Thursday of an incurable form of the illness, known as XDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB)…” Read Article

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