XRD-TB.
Hotsauce84
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I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like going through this shit. My prayers go out to him and his loved ones.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18940766/site/newsweek/?GT1=9951[i]But if you can???t treat them, what do you do with them in quarantine?[/b]You wait until the disease runs its course. It could take years, but if you look at that recent XDR-TB outbreak in South Africa, you???ll see that the time to death is very quick.You mean in most of these rare cases you just wait for the person to die quickly or heal slowly?[/b]Exactly. It is possible in some cases to operate. If there are a limited number of lesions on the lung, then sometimes surgery can remove that part of the lung that is infected. TB is communicated by coughing out infectious material from broken-down lung tissue, so surgically removing that part of the lung might work. There may also be experimental drugs or new combinations of drugs that can be tried.