Study: Fake Drugs Feed Resistant Tuberculosis

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In the largest study of its kind, to be published today in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, scientists found that that fake and poorly madeantibiotics are being widely used to treat tuberculosis, almost certainly making the disease more resistant to real drugs in the process.

(New York Times)

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