First Case of Drug-Resistant TB Discovered in U.S.
December 27, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
The nations first case of drug resistant TB has been reported. Something health officials have worried was coming.It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.
Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English.
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