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 LONDON (AP) - More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements a two-year strategy to stop the growing problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization and partners said Thursday.
Officials are concerned that the current epidemic of curable TB might evolve into a drug-resistant variety immune to existing medicines.
"It would be very scary if that happened," said Dr. Ruth McNerney, an infectious diseases expert at London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "Tuberculosis would then turn into what it was centuries ago when it was Europe's biggest killer and wiped out generations of people."
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