CDC Blog Posts Discuss Issues Surrounding TB, MDR-TB

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: A Consequence of Conflict: The Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Nadine Sunderland of the CDC discusses issues surrounding multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Somalia, including preventing, diagnosing, and treating the disease (3/23).

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: An Ounce of Prevention: Why we must strengthen basic TB control to defeat drug-resistant TB
Thomas Kenyon, director of CDC’s Center for Global Health, discusses the challenges of addressing TB in the U.S. and globally. He writes, the CDC is working “closely with many international partners to build the evidence base for better ways to prevent, find, and cure TB, including MDR-TB…” (3/23).

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