When will the next Tuberculosis Pandemic spread to America?

TB is caused by germs that spread when a person with active TB coughs, sneezes or speaks. It's ancient and treatable but now has evolved into stronger forms: multidrug-resistant TB, which does not respond to two top drugs and extensively drug-resistant TB, which is virtually untreatable.

Left unchecked, people with drug-resistant TB could potentially spread the disease to others, creating an epidemic in the highly mobile global economy. Even when detected, the infected have to switch to more potent and expensive medicines, posing a problem for many countries with underfunded health care systems.

Of the more than nine million people around the world who contract tuberculosis every year, about 500,000 have multidrug-resistant TB.

Nearly a quarter of them are in China, where legions of rural migrants face an inadequate health care system. It is also a problem in India, where rural health care is often poor and there is little control over the sale of anti-TB drugs; Russia, which faces a shortage of qualified medical staff and drugs; and South Africa, where the disease thrives amid an AIDS epidemic that has weakened the immune systems of people with HIV.

A whole plane load of people can be put at risk by one TB drug untreatable case....

february 31st

Religion says that evolution never happens. If your resistance is not low, you can take in the tubercle bacillus (the TB Bug) and not get Tuberculosis. You'll find that Tuberculosis is usually at epidemic levels in the poor or run down parts of these countries.