sigh . . . just what the world needs!  several years ago, i read that a few
such cases turned up in new york city.  that's it has gone global does not
sound like the cdc ever got a handle on it.

tb seems to be one of those cyclical diseases, ever present in very small
numbers and then, periodically, busting loose into the wider populace.
eleanor roosevelt died from a stroke, it was reported.  however, she had
already been in decline as a result of a mis-diagnosis (they missed tb) and
was on pred for months for anemia, the worst drug possible for tb at the
time, which caused the tb to devastate her systemically, as her body could
not fight it off.

kate

I guess this is what happens when folks don't take their full dose of
antibiotics.  This could become a pandemic.

http://tinyurl.com/gzoll

That would only be a guess though and not fact.  It seems to be a favorite
word of late.   Many things like this go through changes all the time.
Viruses, bacteria, it is a nightmare trying to sterilize things in a
hospital.
We can catch more stuff in the waiting room than if we would of stayed
home....  So it goes.
Harv

No, it's not going to become a true pandemic simply because most people
aren't going to catch it. However, a lot of us here are on medications
that make us more suscpetible to it, but only if exposed.

Also, don't blame the people afflicted, blame the drug companies. People
in impoverished nations can't get the drugs (the pharmeceutical industry
is much more lucrative than petroleum industry) and when they do get
access they try and save their family members by sharing their drugs, so
noone gets the full dose and drug resistant strains emerge. The
pharmeceutical companies then have the ability to sell even more
expensive drugs to kill the new resistant strains, all the while
claiming to be helping the poorer nations by providing far too little
mediation. While industry needs to be profitable, the profits of the
pharmeceutical industry are insane when they pull crap like adding to
the situations where resistant strains are likely to develop. In the
end, it's people like us in the countries that have these drugs that end
up falling off the perch.

Ari