How Is Tb Treated?

1.	How Is Tb Treated?
Answer» Ninety-five percent of people will RESPOND to the combination of the four first-line drugs -- IONIZED, revamping, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, Hamilton says. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is rarer and XDR TB is rarer still, affecting a few CASES per year in the U.S., Hamilton says. But in other countries, it's really increasing, Hamilton says. So it is true that it's not that FAR away. Our TB program budgets have been cut every year, and so we get less and less able to respond to this sort of thing. Hamilton also warns that if our regular TB cases aren't managed appropriately and aggressively, they can become drug resistant. While we don't want to engender panic, it's a real concern.

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Ninety-five percent of people will RESPOND to the combination of the four first-line drugs -- IONIZED, revamping, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, Hamilton says.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is rarer and XDR TB is rarer still, affecting a few CASES per year in the U.S., Hamilton says.
But in other countries, it's really increasing, Hamilton says. So it is true that it's not that FAR away. Our TB program budgets have been cut every year, and so we get less and less able to respond to this sort of thing.
Hamilton also warns that if our regular TB cases aren't managed appropriately and aggressively, they can become drug resistant. While we don't want to engender panic, it's a real concern.

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