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Totally Drug Resistant TB has emerged in India

For most TB, Tuberculosis, is a disease of their grandparents generation. For them it was the feared lung disease, also known as consumption, which has cost millions of lives down the ages.

With the discovery of antibiotics, TB became a disease of the past.

However, in India a Totally Drug-Resistant form of Tuberculosis  (TDR-TB) has emerged, with a mortality rate of 50%. Could TB again become a disease feared in the West? The wrathful deities of Hinduism and Buddhism (the Dalai Lama’s base is in the north of the country) rule the spirit in India – these seek to bring death. Only the Spirit of God, being given pre-eminence in a region produces health and life.

Read more in: Nature