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Later today (Friday, January 13th) Maryn McKenna will be a guest during the first hour (2 –3 pm EST) on NPR’s Science Friday to discuss the recent detection of a dozen cases of tuberculosis in India said to be `totally resistant’ to current antibiotic treatment.
Friday, January 13th, 2012
New Tuberculosis Strain Thwarts All Antibiotics
Physicians in India have discovered a strain of tuberculosis they call ‘TDR’ for ‘Totally Drug-Resistant’--meaning there is no antibiotic available to fight it. Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug , discusses the possible origins of the strain, and what options--if any--doctors have to treat it.
Guests
Maryn McKenna
Author, "Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA," (Free Press, 2010)
Blogger, Wired
Atlanta, Georgia
Maryn, who is Flublogia’s resident expert on everything drug resistant, has written twice this week about this new development in her Superbug Blog, links to which you’ll find below:
Totally Resistant TB: Earliest Cases in Italy
- By Maryn McKenna
- January 12, 2012
India Reports Completely Drug-Resistant TB
- By Maryn McKenna
- January 9, 2012 |
