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  • [Texas:]TB is making comeback

    03/18/2007 7:41:34 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 20 replies · 836+ views
    San Antonio Express-News ^ | 03/17/2007 | Don Finley
    Success against tuberculosis — a storied disease that afflicted ancient Egyptians and Romantic poets and killed gambler Doc Holliday and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt — has stalled in San Antonio and across the state. The region's proximity to Mexico is one reason, experts say. But it comes as government support to local TB programs has been cut, bond money to rebuild the state's only TB hospital — the Texas Center for Infectious Disease in San Antonio — has languished in red tape for a decade, and particularly deadly drug-resistant strains have spread through Africa, Russia and China. After falling steadily...