Warning over 'superbug' strains of TB

Independent | May 19, 2010
By John von Radowitz, PA

A TB time bomb could explode on the world without major efforts to curb drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, experts warned today.

No-one knows the full extent of the spread of resistant TB.

But two doctors writing in The Lancet medical journal argue that the "superbug" strains could become dominant without significant global investment to tackle the problem.

And they warn that if not enough is done potentially unstoppable forms of TB immune to all treatments could emerge in the future.

TB, once the scourge of the western world, still causes an estimated 1.8 million deaths each year.

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