DRUG RESISTANT TB ON RISE IN EASTERN EUROPE
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE tuberculosis rates remain low in western and central Europe, an increase in drug resistant TB in eastern Europe is raising concern amongst European Union (EU) experts. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has released figures showing that 18.6% of Lithuania's 2,228 TB cases in 2006 were multiple-drug resistant; 15% of Estonia's 399 cases were of this deadly strain; as were 14.7% of Latvia's 1,109 cases. In other EU member states (apart from tiny Malta, where 14.3% of its 16 cases were drug resistant), the proportion ...
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