If Millions Of People Have Tuberculosis, Why Is Speaker's Case Differ

1.	If Millions Of People Have Tuberculosis, Why Is Speaker's Case Different?
Answer» Unlike most tuberculosis patients, SPEAKER has multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). He was earlier thought to have extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), which is even rarer. Multidrug-resistant TB doesn't respond to the first preferred tuberculosis drugs. XDR TB doesn't respond to the first and second preferred drug treatments. Speaker's case also garnered instant attention when the CDC ordered him into isolation for medical TREATMENT and ALERTED the public about his travels so that passengers on his transatlantic flights could GET TB tests.

If Millions Of People Have Tuberculosis, Why Is Speaker's Case Different?

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Unlike most tuberculosis patients, SPEAKER has multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). He was earlier thought to have extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), which is even rarer.
Multidrug-resistant TB doesn't respond to the first preferred tuberculosis drugs. XDR TB doesn't respond to the first and second preferred drug treatments.
Speaker's case also garnered instant attention when the CDC ordered him into isolation for medical TREATMENT and ALERTED the public about his travels so that passengers on his transatlantic flights could GET TB tests.