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Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa

Medical ethics and other experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need be, are justified to contain a very deadly, highly-contagious and drug-resistant mutant strains of tuberculosis and to prevent "a potentially explosive international health crisis" brewing most dangerously at the epicenter of South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic. The new TB variations now defeat many of the world's existing drugs and pose "extreme risk."

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