Extreme TB
Three foreigners at a refugee camp have been quarantined after they were found to have extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), Disease Control Department director-general Thawat Suntrajarn said yesterday.
Thawat said there was currently no treatment for this strain of TB. XDT-DB has recently become major news after a law unused for 44 years was invoked to isolate a man in the United States last month. "The last time this law was invoked was for a smallpox patient," Thawat said. He confirmed there were no cases of Thais having been infected with XDR-TB. Thawat said it remained unclear whether TB vaccination would be able to prevent XDR-TB infection. - the Nation
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