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First Case of Highly Resistant TB Seen in U.S.
It started with a cough, a cool-season hack that refused to go away.

Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood.

Juarez's strain -- so-called extremely drug-resistant (XXDR) TB -- has never before been seen in the United States, according to Dr. David Ashkin, one of the nation's leading experts on tuberculosis. XXDR tuberculosis is so rare that only a handful of other people in the world are thought to have had it.

"These are the ones we really fear because I'm not sure how we treat them," Ashkin said.
Isolation? That's what they did with Typhoid Mary. While harsh, it's not as bad now that there's the internet.
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Posted by: Uncle Phester 2009-12-31
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