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Ignorance and MDR-TB

Medical science is in danger of losing the fight against multiple drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB because too many doctors are prescribing the wrong medication or too little of the correct drugs. [s]The Times[/s] reports that this is according to Professor Simon Schaaf, a paediatric researcher at the [b]Desmond Tutu TB Centre[/b], at [b]Stellenbosch University[/b]. Schaaf, who was recently awarded the National Order of Mapungubwe (Silver) by President Jacob Zuma for his ground-breaking work on drug-resistant TB, said ‘We are not thinking carefully enough about what we are doing, largely because of ignorance.’

[link url=http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/06/02/tb-bugs-outsmart-docs]Full report in The Times[/link]

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