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WASHINGTON (AP) - Overseas health workers treating patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, the bug that set off a recent international health scare, would get a $50 million assist under a measure adopted Thursday by the House.
The money would go to purchase drugs, train health care workers and build, equip and operate laboratories overseas, under an amendment approved by the House. Most of the money would be spent in Africa.
TB can be successfully treated with antibiotics, but forms of the bacterial disease that have developed resistance to those drugs are a growing worry. Of particular concern is "extensively drug-resistant" TB, or XDR-TB.
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