People infected with an especially dangerous strain of tuberculosis (TB) at Jose Pearson TB Hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, are experiencing this nightmare firsthand. South Africa, already in the grip of a catastrophic HIV/AIDS epidemic, is in the midst of another deadly epidemic. The agent responsible is known as XDR-TB: a TB strain that was discovered in 2006 as having developed resistance to nearly all TB drugs.
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