India steps up TB fight as fears of drug-resistant strains mount

September 06, 2012 16:44

Simon Denyer's report on TB in India. The discovery of an almost untreatable form of tuberculosis in India has set off alarm bells around the world and helped spur a dramatic expansion of government efforts to battle the killer lung disease.

Denyer, as you know, is in the eye of a storm over the Washington Post's report that the PM cut a tragic figure.

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